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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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Distribution of whiston Families in the US in 1920
Number of whiston families
 11-20
 4-10		 1-3
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Whiston Family Rebekah Applin 13
Whistons of England LindaMathews23 1
Clara Whiston Photo Youngstown Ohio ldove2 0
Whiston / Burgess egyptrein 0
Whistons of England LindaMathews23 4
John Whiston muriel_mt 7
whistons brad whiston 0
Whiston Family - Staffordshire & Cheshire mariajpodonnell 0
Tracing Whistons in Ireland Cathy Whiston 1
Whiston Ann Cherokeeia 0
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