The whiston Surname
whiston Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Whiston. Examples in Merseyside (formerly in Lancashire) and South
Yorkshire are named from Old English hwit ‘white’ +
stan ‘stone’, while one in Staffordshire is from the
genitive case of an unattested Old English personal name Witi
meaning ‘white’ + Old English tun ‘enclosure’,
‘settlement’. Another place of the same name, in Northamptonshire, was
probably named as the settlement associated with the Hwicce,
the name of an Old English tribe.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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