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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name from Middle English lang, long ‘long’ + strete ‘road’.
  • Translation of Dutch Langestraet, cognate with 1.
  • The confederate general James Longstreet (1821–1904), was born in SC, came from an old Dutch family in New Netherland with the name Langestraet; he was the nephew of Augustus B. Longstreet, a Methodist clergyman born in Augusta, GA, in 1790.

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