Blackstone Family History
Blackstone Name Meaning
English:: habitational name from Blackstone in Woodmancote (Sussex) from the Old English personal name Blæcsige + ing + tūn ‘the estate called after Blæcsige’. habitational name from Blaxton in Yorkshire named with Old English blæc ‘black’ + stān ‘stone’. habitational name from Blakeston (Hall) in Norton (Durham) from the Old Norse personal name Bleikr + Old English tūn meaning ‘Bleikr's estate’. topographic name for someone who lived by a dark (boundary) stone from Middle English blak(e) ‘black dark’ (Old English blæc) + stān ‘stone’. perhaps from the Middle English personal name Blakston (Old English Blæcstān from blæc ‘black’ + stān ‘stone’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
