When Elizabeth Weston was born about 1735, her father, John Weston, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth or Betty Rose, was 24. She died on 30 November 1735, at the age of 1.
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English:
habitational name from any of numerous places called Weston, from Old English west ‘west’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.
topographic name from Middle English atte west tun(e) ‘at the west farmstead, settlement’ (Old English west + tūn), or from Middle English (bi) weste(n)tune (Old English be westan tūne or be west in tūne), denoting someone who lived either to the west of a settlement or in the western part of a settlement. The latter was a common surname in Sussex.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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