Alston Family History
Alston Name Meaning
from the Middle English personal name Alstan,
which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal
names: Æ{dh}elstan ‘noble stone’, Ælfstan
‘elf stone’, Ealdstan ‘old stone’, or Ealhstan
‘altar stone’.habitational name from any of various places called
Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in
Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in
Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Scandinavian personal name
Halfdan, these place names all consist of an Old English
personal name + Old English tun ‘settlement’, for example
Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Alston Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Alston families
 398 - 794  133 - 397 |
 1 - 132  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Alston families
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393 - 784 132 - 392 |
1 - 131 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Alston families
|
133 - 264 45 - 132 |
1 - 44 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Alston Family Origin
Alston Immigration Information
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Alston Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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