Daston History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins and Etymology of Daston

The surname Daston was first found in Warwickshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the 13th century when they held estates in that shire.

Teston is an ancient Saxon village in the Maidstone District of Kent. Dating back to the 10th century it was first known as Terstan, but by the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, the village was known by Testan. The place name literally means "stone with a gap or hole," from the Old English words taer + stan. 1

The Testonites were an influential group of English abolitionists in the 1780s from Teston, Kent. The group met at Barham Court, home of Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham and was inspired by the sufferings that The Reverend James Ramsay (1733-1789) saw in the West Indies. The group inspired the passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807.

Early History of the Daston family

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Daston Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Daston, Dasston, Dastone, Taston Tasston, Deston, Desston, Teston, Tesston and many more.

Early Notables of the Daston family

the Daston family of Wawrickshire

Migration of the Daston family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands..

Contemporary Notables of the name Daston (post 1700) +

Lorraine Daston, executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin

Sources +

Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)