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alston Name Meaning and History

  1. from the Middle English personal name Alstan, which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal names: Æ{dh}elstan ‘noble stone’, Ælfstan ‘elf stone’, Ealdstan ‘old stone’, or Ealhstan ‘altar stone’.
  2. habitational name from any of various places called Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Scandinavian personal name Halfdan, these place names all consist of an Old English personal name + Old English tun ‘settlement’, for example Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of alston Families in the US in 1920
Number of alston families
 398-794
 133-397		 1-132
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ALSTON Ollie M and Thomas P t42Moore 0
ALSTON Samuel 1916-1970 t42Moore 0
ALSTON Thelma K 1908-1974 t42Moore 0
African American Alston Halifax/Warren County,NC Bernice Lee 27
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Alston Families From Enfield and Rocy Mount/N.C. junie46 2
Thomas Alston b. abt 1818 Ohio debbiedavis76 5
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