Colston Family History
Colston Name Meaning
from a Middle English personal name, Colstan,
which is probably from Old Norse Kolsteinn, composed of the
elements kol ‘charcoal’ + steinn ‘stone’.habitational name from Colston Basset in Nottinghamshire, or the
nearby Car Colston, both of which seem to have originally been named
from the Old Norse personal name Kolr + Old English
tun ‘settlement’. The first syllable of Car Colson was
originally the defining prefix kirk ‘church’.habitational
name from Coulston in Wiltshire, which is named with the genitive case
of an Old English personal name Cufel (diminutive of
Cufa) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Colston Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Colston families
 24 - 45  9 - 23 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Colston families
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54 - 105 19 - 53 |
1 - 18 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Colston families
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27 - 52 10 - 26 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Colston Family Origin
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Colston Family Occupations
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