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The surname Paxston was first found in the ancient county of Berwickshire, now an administrative area of the Scottish Borders region, home of Paxton House, a historic house built between 1758 and 1766. This was the former seat of the Paxton family and is now open to the public as a Partner Gallery of the National Galleries of Scotland. Great Paxton and Little Paxton are villages in the ancient county of Huntingdonshire, now part of Cambridgeshire. Both villages have kept relatively small over the years, but trace back to the Domesday Book where they were listed as Pachstone and literally meant "farmstead of a man called Paecc" from the Old English personal name + tun.

Paxston Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Paxton, Paxson, Paxon and others.

Paxston Early History

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Paxston research. Another 233 words (17 lines of text) covering the years 1296, 1304, 1350 and 1400 are included under the topic Early Paxston History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Paxston Early Notables (pre 1700)

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The Great Migration

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Henry Paxson settled in Pennsylvania in 1682 with his wife, three children and his brother Thomas; William Paxson settled in Delaware in 1682 with his wife Mary and children.

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Citations

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

Other References

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Marcharn, Frederick George. A Constitutional History of Modern England 1485 to the Present. London: Harper and Brothers, 1960. Print.
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