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Surname Etymology and Meaning of RUSHTON

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English: habitational name from any of the various places so named, for example in Cheshire, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire, from Old English rysc ‘rushes’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)