Brief Life History of George
George Alston was born about 1655, in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. He married Rebecca Brookings on 25 October 1714, in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
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- George Alston, "New Hampshire Marriages, 1720-1920"
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Name Meaning
English and Scottish:
from the Middle English personal name Alstan, which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal names: Æthelstān ‘noble stone’, Ælfstān ‘elf stone’, Ealdstān ‘old stone’, or Ealhstān ‘temple stone’.
habitational name from any of various places called Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Norse personal name Halfdan, these placenames all consist of an Old English personal name + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, for example Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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