Allston (surname)

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Allston
Language(s) English
Origin
Region of origin British Isles
Language(s) Old English
Word/Name Æthelstan
Derivation æþele + stān
Meaning"noble stone"
Other names
Variant(s) Alston
Footnotes: [1]

Allston is an English language surname. [2] [3] Notable people with the surname include:

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Aaron Allston American writer

Aaron Dale Allston was an American game designer and author of many science fiction books, notably Star Wars novels. His works as a game designer include game supplements for role-playing games, several of which served to establish the basis for products and subsequent development of TSR's Dungeons & Dragons game setting Mystara. His later works as a novelist include those of the X-Wing series: Wraith Squadron, Iron Fist, Solo Command, Starfighters of Adumar, and Mercy Kill. He wrote two entries in the New Jedi Order series: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream and Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand. Allston wrote three of the nine Legacy of the Force novels: Betrayal, Exile, and Fury, and three of the nine Fate of the Jedi novels: Outcast, Backlash, and Conviction.

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Robert Francis Withers Allston American politician

Robert Francis Withers Allston was the 67th Governor of South Carolina. He was born in Waccamaw, South Carolina.

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Alston is an English language surname of Anglo-Saxon origin with several derivations. It may have evolved from the Middle English given name "Alstan", the prefix, Al- itself derived from different Old English words, and the suffix -stan ("stone") derived from pre 7th century Old English. The oldest public record of this derivation is found in 1279 in Cambridgeshire. One branch of this name may have been taken from the manor of a Saxon Lord called Alstanus, he had his manor in Stambourne, North East Essex. It is known that he was still in possession of the Manor after the Norman conquest, although as a tenant rather than owner, he held the land annexed against the King. There are a high density of families with the surname Alston and Alliston from around the Sudbury area, not far from Stambourne. In the 1224 feet of fines it is recorded that John son of Adam de Alliston sold land at Stanfeld (Stansfield) Suffolk. Stansfield is a few miles North of Stambourne. Both Stambourne and Stansfield may have taken their name from Æthelstan Half-King, Earl of East Anglia in the 930s.

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References

  1. ↑ "Surname Database: Allston Last Name Origin". The Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  2. ↑ Reaney, Percy Hide; Wilson, Richard Middlewood (1991). A Dictionary of English Surnames. Tavistock classics in the history of psychiatry. London: Routledge. p. 54. ISBN   978-0-415-05737-0. OCLC   22345901 . Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  3. ↑ Hanks, Patrick (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set. 1. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 26. ISBN   978-0-19-508137-4. OCLC   51655476 . Retrieved 2018-12-21.
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