Wolston

English

Etymology

Mentioned as Ulvricetone in the Domesday Book, the placename derives from the Old English personal name Wulfrīc + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Wolston (countable and uncountable, plural Wolstons)

1. A village and civil parish in Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4175).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.
   • 1950 March, “The Why and the Wherefore: Brixham Branch, W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 216:

     R. W. Wolston, of Brixham, was instrumental in obtaining the Act for the railway, which was authorised on July 25, 1864, and held more than 98 per cent. of the shares.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Wolston is the 346147^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 47 individuals.

See also

• Woolston

References

• Survey of English Place-Names

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wolston”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears