of W Lothan and Saxon descent

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All this Livingston stuff comes from this web page

http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=belacey1&id=I2014...

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Leving of Levingstoun circa 1100 (Shown in E.B. Livingston: The Livingstons of Callendar, p. 3 & 4) Leving settled in West Lothian, southwest of Edinburgh during the reign of King Edgar (1097 – 1107) and is also known to have been there during the reign of King Alexander I (1107 – 1124) and King David I (1124 – 1153). It is from Leving that we get the name "Leving's Town' or 'Livingston'. His name was recorded in the latinized form “Levingus” when he presented the church of his manor to the newly founded Abbey of Holyrood in 1128. Leving of Levingstoun had the following children:

Thurston of Levingstoun Hugh of Balbard in Fife German, Burgess of St. Andrews in Fife

Sources: http://www.robertsewell.ca/living1.html

Accompanying Margaret to the court of King Edward the confessor was one Baron de Leving. Baron de Leving's ancestry is obscure, so we do not know if he was a Saxon or Hungarian nobleman. He had a son named Leving, who in turn had a son named Leving. As a refugee following Hastings in 1066, Margaret fled to Scotland and married its King. Perhaps this is what drew the young Leving to visit and eventually settle in Scotland, during the reign of King Edgar of Scotland (1097-1107). Leving chose the West Lothian district in the lowlands of Scotland, southwest of Edinburgh. So close to Edinburgh, that he donated the church of his manor to the newly founded Abbey of Holyrood in 1128. He gave his name to the land he settled on. Given his name, Leving, by now, you should realise how the first part of Livingstone came about. To understand the second stone part, requires a history lesson. You will find that it has nothing to do with stone, which needs to be broken down into two components.

Sources: http://www.adair.ca/Livingstone.html

Perhaps Baron de Leving (or more likely his forebear) accompanied Edward the Atheling into exile in the early 11th century; for as Mr. E.B. Livingston argues so convincingly on the first page of The Livingstons of Callendar, Baron de Leving was doubtless of Saxon lineage: “. . . in England, long before the Norman Conquest, the patronymic Leving, Living or Lyfing, derived from Leofing, which in modern English means ‘the son of Leof’ – namely ‘son of the Beloved’ – was borne by numerous persons of rank and positon as their family or tribal name. It occurs as early as the middle of the ninth century as the name of one of the witnesses to a charter of Berthwulf of Mercia; and the Archbishop of Canterbury who crowned Edmund Ironside in 1016, and who likewise crowned his rival and successor Canute a few months later, also bore that name. So did another famous Saxon churchman, the Bishop of Crediton and Worster, and the friend of Earl Godwine, who has come to us in the words of the old Saxon chronicler as ‘Lyfing se wordsnotera biscop,’ namely ‘Living the eloquent bishop’.