Tolson Family History
Tolson Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire):: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Tol(l)e (see Towle ) + -son ‘son of Tol(l)e’. habitational name from Toulston in Newton Kyme (Yorkshire). The placename derives from the personal name Toglos (probably from an Old Norse nickname Tauglauss ‘ropeless’) + Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022