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SWAINSTON Family History

This interesting name is of combined Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon origin, and has a number of different interpretations. Firstly, it may be a variant form of the patronymic surname Swainson, which itself has two related sources. It may be derived from an occupational name for a servant or attendant, from the Middle English term "swein", a development of the Old Norse "sveinn", reinforced with the Olde English pre 7th Century "swan", or it may derive from the Old Norse personal name "Sveinn", originally a byname meaning "Boy", Servant", as before.