Liston Family History
- Liston Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a place in Essex, so named from the Old English personal name Lissa (probably a pet form of Leofsige; see Livesay 2) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Scottish: habitational name from places in West Lothian and Midlothian, which probably have the same origin as in 1. This surname is also found in Ireland.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 243,101 Historical Documents with Liston on Ancestry
- 57,975 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 36,468 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,716 Military Records
- 4,595 Immigration Records
- 136,347 Member Trees
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Number of Liston families
 11 - 19  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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