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dunstan Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from a Middle English personal name Dunstan, composed of Old English dunn ‘dark’, ‘brown’ + stan ‘stone’. This name was borne by a 10th-century archbishop of Canterbury who was later canonized.
  2. English: habitational name from Dunstone in Devon, named from Old English Dunstanestun ‘settlement of Dunstan’ (as in 1). The surname is still chiefly common in Devon, but there are places in other parts of the country with similar names but different etymologies (e.g. Dunstan in Northumbria, Dunston in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Staffordshire, and Derbyshire), which may possibly have contributed to the surname.
  3. Scottish: partly perhaps the same as 1, but there is a place named Dunstane in Roxburghshire, which may also be a source of the surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dunstan Families in the US in 1920
Number of dunstan families
 14-25
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 56 - Messages: 184
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Edward Tremayne Dunstan Michael Goodden 17
Richard William Dunstan Barbara Rogers 3
Joseph Dunstan (1842-) jonpidduck 0
Dunstan - Fredericksburg, VA, Lee Co. AL, possiblyTX annedpjohnson 9
Dunstan/Manchester, England Albert G. Ellis 17
James Dunstan b 1868-1869 Donald_Dunstan 4
Margaret Renfroe ChuckandDian 1
Richard Dunstone married to Frances John, 1758 DavidWilkins96 13
William H Dunstan and Sarah E Forrest pfeifer156 0
DUNSTAN of Cornwall robertjames7022 3
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