Last name: PRESTON
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PRESTON : This last name is indexed 323,317 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
PRESTON : English:: 1: habitational name from one of the many places (most notably one in Lancashire) so called from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.2: occasionally from Middle English prest + son ‘son of the priest’. Priests were forbidden marriage but many produced illegitimate offspring.
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