Poston Family History
- Poston Name Meaning
- topographic name for someone who lived by a postern gate, from Old French posterne; in some cases it would have been a metonymic occupational name for a gatekeeper. habitational name from Poston in Herefordshire or Poston in Shropshire, which is named with an Old English personal name Possa + þorn ‘thorn tree’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 278,675 Historical Documents with Poston on Ancestry
- 77,649 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 35,025 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,033 Military Records
- 2,149 Immigration Records
- 153,819 Member Trees
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Number of Poston families
 22 - 42  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Poston families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Poston census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Poston census records
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