Roston Family History
- Roston Name Meaning
- habitational name from a place in Derbyshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Roschintone, possibly ‘estate (Old English tun) associated with Hrothsige’, an Old English personal name. variant of Rosson.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 22,317 Historical Documents with Roston on Ancestry
- 8,350 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,224 Census and Voter Lists
- 882 Military Records
- 5,081 Immigration Records
- 2,780 Member Trees
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Number of Roston families
 39 - 75  14 - 38 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Roston census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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