ALDANSTON: Perhaps from the manor of Aldenstone in Cumberland, now Alston. Jurdan de Aldanston was juror on an inquisition held at Berwick on the lands of Lady Elena de la Zuche lying in the sheriffdom of Edinburgh, 1296 (Bain, II, p. 215). Andreu de Haldanstone of Edinburghshire rendered homage in the same year. His seal bears an eight-leaved flower and S' Andree de Haldonistun (ibid., p. 201,547). John de Haldanstoun was witness in a document signed at St. Andrews, 1391 (Wemyss, II, p. 29). James Haldenstone or de Haldenston, prior of St. Andrews, 1418—43, as Master James of Hawdenston had a safe conduct into England in 1425 (Bain, IV, 988). John of Aldynstoun was juror on an inquest on the lands of Gladmor (Gladsmuir), 1430 (James II, p. 16). James Aldinstoun of that Ilk was cautioner for Robert, Lord Seytoun, 1586 (RPC., IV, p. 80), and John Aldinstoun was appointed constable for the barony of Broughton, 1633 (ibid., 2. ser. V, p. 83). David Aldinstone who was session clerk of South Leith during the plague of 1645 (PSAS., IV, p. 394) may be the same with David Aldinstoun, reader at Leith, 1657 (Laing, 2506). compare Aldinstoun.

ALDINSTOUN: The lands of Aldeneston were held before 1292 by Robert de Veteri Ponte, as in that year 'renunciat A. Regi Scottorum homagium quod ei fecit pro terra de Aldeneston ita quod Rex ipse non teneretur ad warrantiam ejusaem terre (APS., I, p. 116). An Adam filius Alden is witness to a Kelso charter of 1178 (RAA., I, 2), and in 1329 Willelmus dictus Aldyn was provost of Lanark (ER., I, p. 163). In 1662 the name is spelled Adnistoun, Aldinstoun, Adinstoun, Auldinstoun, of that Ilk is mentioned in 1546 (Laing), and ten years later John Aldinstoun was one of an inquest into Edinburgh's municipal affairs (EBR., 259). Frequent in RAA., 11, under various forms. John Aldstone, charter witness, 1498 (RAA., 11,394). Mention of garden of John Hadstone in Arbroath, 1529. Haldston, 1532, Aldinston (from estate), 1524. Aldston 1508, Aldstone 1498, Aldynston 1524, Haldstone 1505. Haltanstane 1495. compare Aldanston.