Last name: THURSTON
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THURSTON : This last name is indexed 103,072 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
THURSTON : English (mainly East Anglia):: 1: from the Anglo-Norman Anglo-Scandinavian and Middle English personal name Thurstan Thorsten (Old Norse Thórsteinn Thorsten Anglicized as Old English Thurstān; see Thorstensen).2: habitational name from Thurston in Suffolk so called from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Thóri (see Thor) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure settlement’.
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