Penrose Family History
Penrose Name Meaning
Cornish and Welsh: habitational name from any of the places called
Penrose, in ten parishes of Cornwall, several in Wales, and in
Herefordshire near the Welsh border. All are named with Celtic
pen ‘head’, ‘top’, ‘end’ + ros ‘heath’, ‘moor’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Penrose Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Penrose families
 184 - 366  62 - 183 |
 1 - 61  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Penrose families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Penrose Family Origin
Penrose Emigration Information (US)
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Penrose Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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