Osenton Family History
Osenton Name Meaning
from Ossington (Notts) which is recorded as Oskintun' in the 12th century Ossinton in 1280 Ossington in 131 The place-name probably means ‘farmstead associated with a man called Ōsica’ from an Old English personal name *Ōsica + the connective particle -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead settlement’. Compare Orson .
Source: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021