Royston Family History
- Royston Name Meaning
- habitational name from a place in Hertfordshire, recorded in 1262 as Croyroys, from Old French croiz ‘cross’ (Latin crux, genitive crucis) + the female personal name Royse (see Rose 2). Ekwall mentions forms from only twenty years later in which the place name first more or less assumes its modern form. It is not clear, however, whether this is to be interpreted as ‘Royse’s stone’ (with the second element Middle English ston, from Old English stan) or ‘settlement at (Croiz) Royse’ (with the second element Middle English toun, from Old English tun). habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, so called from the genitive case of the Old English byname Hror, meaning ‘vigorous’ (or its Old Norse cognate Róarr) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 153,682 Historical Documents with Royston on Ancestry
- 51,952 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 36,617 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,319 Military Records
- 2,461 Immigration Records
- 58,333 Member Trees
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Number of Royston families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Royston families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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