The ruston Surname
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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