Garston Family History

English (Flintshire and Lancashire):: habitational name from Garston in Lancashire a placename meaning ‘the great stone’. post-medieval variant of Garstang. topographic name denoting someone who lived by a grassy enclosure or paddock from Middle English garston (Old English gærstūn) or a metonymic occupational name denoting someone who looked after the paddock in which the village cattle were kept.

Occasionally a habitational name from either of the places called Garston in Hampshire or Hertforshire which are derived from Old English gærstūn ‘grassy enclosure’. variant of the habitational name Corston a habitational name from Corston in Shropshire Somerset and Wiltshire.

Compare Garson and Gasson.