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Edmonston/Edmonstone are Scottish. Edmiston might be a version of this or of Edmundson or Edmondson, depending on the clerk or the literacy of the writer of a record or the ability of the owner of the name to tell the official how to spell it. Edmundson and Edmondson are of Norse origin, meaning literally son of Edmund/Edmond. Edmonstone refers to a location. The Edmundsons/Edmondsons appear to have entered England with the Norse invaders and lived in the Danelaw, that area of England which continued to use Danish/Norse legal practices after the Anglo-Saxons came to dominate the area, generally Yorkshire and northward on the eastern coast. The Washingtons lived in this same area and were of Norse backgroudn. The Edmonstones might have been Norse, too, but I have no evidence of that. The Vikings really got around. The Edmonstones had a branch which settled in Ireland as part of the Anglo-Irish system after James II was defeated. Some of the Quaker Edmundsons from the Midlands settled in Ireland, too, before immigrating to the Caribbean and to Pennsylvania and Maryland. Edmundson and Edmondson seemed to be interchangeable among the descendants of Thomas Edmundson of Essex as the spelling. Edmundson was more consistently used by the Quaker descendants. On the frontier, Edmonston might become Edmondson or Edmiston. Makes it hard to make sense of records. For some reason, there was a major shift around 1800 to the use of Edmondson as the most popular spelling.
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