Plested Family History
Plested Name Meaning
from Middle English plei(e) ‘play game performance’ + stede ‘place location’ (Old English plegstede plægstede). The surname may be for someone who lived near a place for physical or theatrical play or for someone from a place so named such as Chapel Plaster in Box (Wilts) which is recorded as Pleystede in 1268. Compare Plastow .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016