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The Sabiston surname originates with "Sebastian" Sabiston a survivor of a shipwreck of a Spanish Armada ship, most likely the El Gran Grifón that arrived at Fair Isle on 27 September 1588 trying to find a haven to effect repairs, she anchored in Swartz Geo, but the tide drove the ship ashore so that she wrecked on the rocks of Stroms Hellier in the Shetland Islands. The survivors that stayed on and made a home for themselves in the Orkney islands, rather than being repatriated to Spain, were known collectively as the "Westray Dons". One such, is the progenitor of this surname. His forename or surname, was probably Sebastian and to the locals unaccustomed to foreign names have assumed "Sabiston" as his surname and to his progeny ever since. There is a great free resource to use here geneanet tree of Sabiston to trace all his descendants as almost all his progeny have already been traced and documentary evidence referenced. Branches of his tree migrated away from the Orkney Islands of Scotland over the subsequent centuries and thus the surname is found in the present era in most continents of the world, notably in Europe, Australia, and North America.
A note of caution. Many forenames are reused in Scotland, Father, Uncles Cousins, 2nd cousins etc will be found with exactly the same name, and it may appear that 2 people are the same, with the same birth year, and a father with the same name, and all living in the same town in Orkney, but they can be from completely different branches and actually be 3rd cousins, so be careful with the merges .