Tunstead Family History
Tunstead Name Meaning
principally from Tunstead (Norfolk) but perhaps occasionally from Tunstead in Chapel in le Frith (Derbys) Tunstead in Wormhill (Derbys) Tunstead in Pemberton (Lancs) or Tunstead in Newchurch in Rossendale (Lancs). The place-names derive from Old English tūn-stede ‘farmstead’ (tūn ‘farmstead estate’ + stede ‘place’).
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016