Släkthistoria för Wheatstone
Wheatstone Vad efternamn betyder
from Whetstone (Leics) or perhaps Wheatstone in Codsall (Staffs) both named with Old English hwet-stān ‘whetstone’.from Middle English whet-ston ‘whetstone’. It may sometimes allude to the whetstone serving as a token of falseness hung about the neck of a convicted liar (MED ).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
