Balderston Family History
Balderston Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places in Lancashire called Balderston(e) deriving their names from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Baldhere (composed of the elements bald ‘bold brave’ + here ‘army’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure settlement’. Scottish: habitational name from Balderston in West Lothian which has the same etymology as 1 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022