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Adinston Surname Definition:

ADINSTON: Adinstoun of that Ilk was an old family which ended in an heiress who married a Hepburn (Nisbet, I, p. 123). There was also a family of Adinston of Carcant in Midlothian (Fordett, p. 192). Perhaps from Adniston, near Macmeny, East Lothian, by metathetic change.

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ADINSTON: Adinstoun of that Ilk was an old family which ended in an heiress who married a Hepburn (Nisbet, I, p. 123). There was also a family of Adinston of Carcant in Midlothian (Fordett, p. 192). Perhaps from Adniston, near Macmeny, East Lothian, by metathetic change. Alexander Adinstoun was heir of Henry Adinstoun, "pistor," burgess of Edinburgh in 1618 (Inquis., 793), and John Adingstoun was heir of Thomas Adingstoun, merchant burgess of Edinburgh in 1629 (ibid., 1470). The wife of George Adinstoune in Phanes sued for her services in harvest in 1656 (RRM., I, p. 202). The name is also found in the Edinburgh Marriage Records as Adnestoun (1622) and Adnistoun (1655). The tenement of the late John Adensoun in Linlithgow is mentioned in 1538 (Johnsoun), and George Adinston is recorded in Fawnes, 1662 (RRM,, II, p. 15). Other old forms of the name are: Adainstoun, Adenston, Adiestoun, Adinstone 1655, Aldinstoune, Adistone, Adningstoun, Adiston (1688).

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

ADINSTOUN: "Of that Ilk-an ancient family in East Lothian, that ended in an heiress, who married Hepburn." Nisbet.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower
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