Pena Family History
Pena Name Meaning
Spanish (Peña), Catalan, Portuguese, and Galician:
topographic name for someone who lived near a crag or cliff, Spanish
peña, Catalan, Galician, and Portuguese pena, a
common element of place names.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Pena
Name Distribution of Pena Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pena families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pena census records
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Pena Family Origin
Pena Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Pena Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Pena census records
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Military Service by Pena
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