Gelston Family History
Gelston Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place so named in Lincolnshire. The placename recorded in the Domesday book as Cheuelestune is probably from an Old Norse personal name Gjǫfull + Old English tūn ‘farmstead village’. Irish (Antrim and Down): it is possible that this name has been adopted as an Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla tSeanáin see Gilsenan .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022