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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Market Stainton in Lincolnshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Staintone, from Old English stān ‘stone’ (replaced by Old Norse steinn) + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.

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