When John Robert Gaston was born in 1794, in Chester, South Carolina, United States, his father, William Gaston, was 37 and his mother, Mary McClure, was 36. He married Ann Carson on 11 August 1814, in Christian, Kentucky, United States. He died on 21 September 1869, in Jefferson, Illinois, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Bond, Illinois, United States.
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French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Gasto, derived from gast ‘guest, foreigner’, earlier ‘foreign warrior’. This surname is also found in England and Ireland, where it is probably a Huguenot importation. Compare Guest .
English (Sussex): variant of Gasson 1.
English: in Gloucestershire, a variant of Garston , a topographic name or metonymic occupational name denoting someone who lived by or worked in a paddock.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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