Poston Family History
Poston Name Meaning
topographic name for someone who lived by a postern
gate, from Old French posterne; in some cases it would have
been a metonymic occupational name for a gatekeeper.habitational name from Poston in Herefordshire or Poston in
Shropshire, which is named with an Old English personal name
Possa + þorn ‘thorn tree’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Poston Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Poston families
 80 - 158  27 - 79 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Poston families
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22 - 42 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Poston families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Poston Family Origin
Poston Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Poston
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Poston Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Poston census records
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Poston Civil War Service Records
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