The elston Surname
elston Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of various places so named. One
in Lancashire is named from the Old English female personal name
Æ{dh}elsige (composed of the elements a{dh}el ‘noble’
+ sige ‘victory’) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’,
‘settlement’; one in Nottinghamshire originally had as its first
element the genitive case of the Old Norse byname Eilífr
meaning ‘everlasting’; one in Wiltshire was so named from Elias
Giffard, holder of the manor in the 12th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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