Just a wild guess, but there is a place not far from Trondheim in Norway called Hoston. Spoken by a norwegian this would sound allmost exactly like whoston in english. Hoston however is a bit inland which makes it less probable that someone from there would become a fisherman, not impossible though. Trond "whoston" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > im looking to see if any one knows of the whoston name comeing from > scandinavian and was a fisherman who was born their and then went to > england to live . this was as far i can recall from where we ariginated > from 1400s and cant seem to have any leads , any help will be > appreciated thanks joe > -- > Direct access to this group with http://web2news.com > http://web2news.com/?soc.genealogy.nordic