Elston Family History
- Elston Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of various places so named. One in Lancashire is named from the Old English female personal name Æ{dh}elsige (composed of the elements a{dh}el ‘noble’ + sige ‘victory’) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; one in Nottinghamshire originally had as its first element the genitive case of the Old Norse byname Eilífr meaning ‘everlasting’; one in Wiltshire was so named from Elias Giffard, holder of the manor in the 12th century.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 374,233 Historical Documents with Elston on Ancestry
- 91,363 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 60,591 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,289 Military Records
- 3,914 Immigration Records
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Number of Elston families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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153 - 303 52 - 152 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- Confederate
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- Union
- 100
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