Last Name DENNISTOUN

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Meaning Local: from the lands of Dennistoun in Renfrewshire. The family have been seated in the west of Scotland since the eleventh century � in the time of Malcolm IV, one Danziel, probably a Norman, received a grant of lands which he called Danzielstoun. The family are descended from Sir Hugh de Danzielstoun, 1296.
Origin Scottish, Irish



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