The standish Surname
standish Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from a place in Lancashire (now part of
Greater Manchester), so named from Old English stan ‘stone’
+ edisc ‘pasture’. There is another place so named in
Gloucestershire, but it does not seem to be the source of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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