English (chiefly in Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name
from any of the numerous places, for example in Lancashire, North and
East Yorkshire, County Durham, Humberside, Kent, Norfolk, Shropshire,
Staffordshire, and Suffolk, so named from an Old English
tun-st(e)all ‘site of a farm’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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