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Meaning 'of Houston', a locational name. Variants
Houston, Houstoun, Huston. From the Barony of the name in Lanarkshire. The
ancient family of Houston originally bore the name Paduinan, from a place of
that name in Lanarkshire. In the reign of Malcolm IV Baldwin de Bigre gave
the lands of Kilpeter to Hugh de Paduinan, who appears as a witness to the
foundation charter of the Abbey of Paisley between 1165-1173.Hugh's son
Reginald, obtained a confirmation of these lands.Hugh, son of Reginald
again, obtained a charter from Walter Fitz-Alan, High Steward, now become
superior of the lands, werein it is narrated that his father and grandfather
held the lands of the family of Bigre. The Barony had now taken its Saxon
name from the settlement of the first of these Old Lords- Huston or 'Villa
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