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Origins Available: England. Scotland. Ireland. Etymology of Johnstone. What does the name Johnstone mean? The ancestors of the first family to use the name Johnstone were thought to have lived among the Boernician tribe of ancient Scotland. They lived in any of several place names in Scotland.
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Etymology. The habitational surname Johnstone / Johnston is in most cases derived from the name of Johnstone located in Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. This surname is derived from the genitive case of the given name John and tone or toun ("settlement" in Middle English; tun in Old English), literally meaning "John's town".
The Johnstone family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Johnstone families were found in and Scotland in 1841. In 1891 there were 865 Johnstone families living in Lancashire. This was about 19% of all the recorded Johnstone's in United Kingdom.
This interesting name is of Scottish locational origin from the lands thus called in Annandale, Dumfriesshire. The founder of the family, bearing the forename, Jonis, is believed to have followed his overlords from Yorkshire circa 1174 and was granted the lands to which he gave his name.
Background: Johnstone comes from "John's toun", not "John's stone" or John's son." Historically, "Johnston" has been an alternate spelling of the surname. The first known person of this name was John of Johnstone, who in 1174 gave his name to the lands of Annandale in Dumfrieshire which he had been granted.
The first name John derives from the Ancient Hebrew name Jochanaan, meaning ‘God is gracious’. In its Latin form the name Johannes came west with the returning Crusaders, and during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it spread all over Europe.
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