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Occurence
Regional Tapestries
- Old Chester Houston Tapestry
- Houston Family in Old Augusta
- Southwest Virginia Houston Tapestry
- Smoky Mountain Houston Tapestry
- Carolina Cradle Houston Tapestry
Variants
| Variants | Frequency 1810 Census
| | Huston | 173
| | Houston | 128
| | Hewson | 11
| | Hewston | 6
| | Hewstone | 0
| | Hueston | 2
| | Hueson | 0
| | Houstone | 0
| | Hustone | 1
| | McQuiston | 8
| | McQueston | 10
| | McCuiston | 0
| | MacQuiston | 0
| | MacCuiston | 0
| | Hauston | 0
| | Other* | 8
| | Total | 238
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- A search for all variants of "Huston" was made on Ancestry's version of the 1810 US census, using the "exact match" option. A total of 238 hits were found. Individual searches of the above variations turned up a total of 230 hits. The remaining 8 hits are prewsumed to be rare variants of the surname. With "exact match" turned off a total of 1352 hits were obtained. Most of those hits appear to be variations of "Stone" and unrelated to the Houston surname.
Derivation
| Toponymic | The "Houston" surname is commonly said to be a toponymic derived from "Hugh's Town", a village in near Glasgow Scotland found about 1160 by Hugo de Paduinan | Ancestry
| | Patronymic | "Houston" may be a corruption of the Gaellic "Uisdein", derived from "Mac Uisdein", or "Mac Uistein", as in "son of Uisdein" | Ancestry
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