Dictionary of Family Names

Origin of the Surname HALSTEAD.

HALSTEAD. A town in Essex, England, from hals, the neck, a narrow tract of land, and sted, a place. Holsted, a town in North Jutland, that is, the low place; hol, Dutch, hollow, and stead, a place: a house or town in a hollow place.

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