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ruston Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the various places so named, for example in Norfolk, North Yorkshire, and East Yorkshire. The two villages of this name in Norfolk are recorded in Domesday Book as Ristuna, and are from Old English hris ‘brushwood’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; Ruston Parva in East Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Roreston, is named from the genitive case of the Old Norse byname Hrór meaning ‘vigorous’ + Old English tun. Ruston in North Yorkshire is Rostune in Domesday Book, apparently from Old English hrost ‘roost’, ‘roof’ + tun, referring to a building with an unusual roof.

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Distribution of ruston Families in the US in 1920
Number of ruston families
 18-34
 7-17		 1-6
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Rustons in Yorkshire - 1800's & before ElisabethWatson12 4
CHARLOTTE,VERMONT 1840 BIRTH maela40 0
Ruston Family History UK Patricia Ruston 16
RUSTON FAMILY SEARCH maela40 0
Ruston's in Ontario, Canada Jude Russell 3
Daniel Ruston sue1254 6
Daniel,Richard,Edward,Alfred,Farmer Ruston from Chatteris sue13601 2
Henry Ruston North Dalton webskaren 0
William M. Ruston Eugene_Beckett 0
Sarah Ann (Ruston) Ploof 1848-1887 Ferrisburg,VT maysie_340 0
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