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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.

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The elston name in History

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Distribution of elston Families in the US in 1920
Number of elston families
 43-84
 15-42		 1-14
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Ruth Eslton snwmnclctr 0
Elston of Sandford and Crediton mmwill132 0
John Elston daba2735 3
Visited Morchard Bishop James Elston 34
ELSTONE Headley area Hampshire anglers_rest 1
Marian, Stewart, and Joseph Elston lp4evermor1 7
Lillian Elston/Skinner Gina 5
Frederick Elston fionatuck 2
Alice Elston & James Lord ealord 0
Thomas Elston and Elizabeth Pope, marr. 1722 Devon mde176 0
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