Last name: ELSTON

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ELSTON : This last name is indexed 26,226 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

ELSTON : English:: 2: habitational name from any of several places called Elston (in Nottinghamshire Lancashire and Wiltshire). Elston in Lancashire comes from the Old English female personal name Æthelsige (composed of the elements athel ‘noble’ + sige ‘victory’) + Old English tūn ‘settlement’. Elston in Nottinghamshire is named with the Old Norse personal name Eiláfr (meaning ‘everlasting’) + tūn ‘settlement’ and Elston in Wiltshire is so named from Elias Giffard holder of the manor in the 12th century.1: from the Middle English personal name Elstan (Old English Ealdstān ‘old’ + ‘stone’ or Ealhstān ‘shrine temple’ + ‘stone’). Compare Alston.

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