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The SULSTON surname
CELSTON CELSTONE SALSTAN SALSTON SALSTONE SALSTUN SELSTEN SELSTON SELSTONE SELLSTONE SILSTON SILSTONE SOLLESDONE SOLLESTONE SULSTAN SULSTON SULSTONE SULSTUN
These are all variants of the family name that have been found in the historical records.
In the parish registers, one individual may have their
surname spelled in three different ways at their christening, marriage and
burial. Some of these variants are familiar to us as modern misspellings of the
name, so imagine how much more difficult it was when the only person in the
village who could write was the priest. He might have been
What is clear is that the surname of William of Blackthorn
(who died in 1719) was SELSTONE but all of his descendants that I have traced
spell their name as SULSTON . This process happened slowly between 1730 and
1800. In the 19th and 20th centuries, it became the only spelling for this
branch of the family, apart from occasional slips. In the 1999
So what is the origin of the name? Sometimes surnames are
the name of the town or region from which a person has moved. There is a
village called Selston in
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