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HUDDLESTON Family History

Recorded in the spellings of Huddleston and Huddlestone, this is an English locational surname of pre-medieval origins. It is claimed to originate from Huddleston cum Lumby, a parish near the small town of Sherburn in Elmet, in West Yorkshire. The village name and hence the surname derives from the Olde English pre 7th century personal name 'Hudel' meaning 'Little Huda' or 'the son of Huda', plus 'tun', a dwelling or hamlet. It is first recorded in the year 1030 in the Yorkshire Charters, as 'Hudelstun', a rare example of a place name spelling which has barely changed over the ten centuries since.