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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.
YDNA
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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