| ![Show Contents]() Aveston History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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Early Origins and Etymology of AvestonThe surname Aveston was first found in Warwickshire where William de Alueston was recorded in the Pipe Rolls for 1190. Later in Yorkshire, Philip de Alverstayn was recorded in the 1276 rolls for that shire. Some of the family were found "in the township is the common of Croach or Beam-heath, [in Alvaston, Cheshire] which in 1285 was given by Richard Alvaston to the whole community of the town of WichMalbank, now Nantwich." 1 Alvaston in Derbyshire dates back to Saxon time where it was first recorded as Alewaldestune c. 1002. By the time of the Domesday Book, it was known as Alewoldestune and literally meant "farmstead of village of a man called Aethelwald or Aelfwald" from the Old English personal name + "tun." 2 In Alvaston Derbyshire, " the manor, then called Alewoldestune, was held by Tochi at the time of the Domesday survey; and belonged afterwards to Ralph Fitz-Germund, founder of Dale Abbey, whose descendant Matilda gave Alvaston to that monastery. " 1 Interestingly, there is a village name Alverstone on the Isle of Wight which dates back to the Domesday Book when it was known as Alvrestone. 3 Alveston is a village, civil parish and former manor in South Gloucestershire and a village in Warwickshire, England, within the civil parish of Stratford-upon-Avon. Early History of the Aveston familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Aveston research. Another 76 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1455 and 1487 are included under the topic Early Aveston History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Aveston Spelling VariationsSound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Aveston family name include Aveston, Alveston, Averston, Alverston, Aveson and many more. Early Notables of the Aveston family Migration of the Aveston familyFor political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Aveston surname or a spelling variation of the name include: John Avesson, who settled in Reading, Maine in 1685; and Ann Maria Alvetson, who arrived in Virginia in 1849.
| Contemporary Notables of the name Aveston (post 1700) | + |
- J. Aveston, British researcher at the Division of Inorganic and Metallic Structure, and Directorate, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK
- Willie Aveston, British PGA golfer who played for the Midland section at the 1908 News of the World Match Play
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
- Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
- Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8)
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