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blackstone Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a dark (boundary) stone, from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’, ‘dark’ (Old English blæc) + stan ‘stone’, or a habitational name from a place named with these words, for example Blaxton in South Yorkshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of blackstone Families in the US in 1920
Number of blackstone families
 43-84
 15-42		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 121 - Messages: 310
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Blackstone DNA Project James (Jim) Otto Blackstone III 21
Parents of Robert Blackstone From Baltimore, Maryland b.~1813 @@jkbenson@citycom.com 1
William Baldwin Blackstone loriebf 1
Blackstone from Richmond Co. GA helenhirtriter 17
Charlotte Blackstone Donna 3
Alice Blackstone dttpunch1 0
Blackstone- Glynn County GA loriebf 0
Also surname Blackson K. Blackstone 9
Reid's Chapel Cemetery, Grovetown, GA Jim_Blackstone 2
Mt. Hickory Primitive Baptist Church Chambers Co. AL Wrblackstone 0
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