Early Origins of the Paxston family
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.
[1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
Early History of the Paxston family
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Paxston Spelling Variations
Early Notables of the Paxston family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Paxston family to Ireland
Some of the Paxston family moved to
Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Migration of the Paxston family to the New World and Oceana
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.