Perera Family History
Perera Name Meaning
Catalan: topographic name from Catalan perera ‘pear
tree’.Galician and Portuguese: variant of
Pereira. DK This name is also found in western India, where
it was taken by Portuguese colonists.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
14,473
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Perera
Name Distribution of Perera Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Perera families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Perera last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Perera census records
You can see how Perera families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
View all Perera census records
>
Perera Family Origin
Perera Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Perera emigration records
You can find out when most of the Perera families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
View all Perera emigration records >
from the New York Passenger Lists
Perera Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Perera census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Perera ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
View all Perera census records >
Military Service by Perera
Message Board about Perera
4 Threads, 6
Messages
Browse message boards to get helpful hints from other people researching the name
Perera.
Threads: 4 - Messages: 6
| Thread | Author | Replies | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Perera |  | chrisjpeltz | 1 |
| Perera Family | | lait123 | 0 |
| kusum jane marina sri perera | | 0 | |
| Tony Perera | | 1 |
Start a FREE Perera family tree
Starting a family tree at Ancestry is not only the easiest way to organise, preserve
and share your family history, it's also a direct link to missing information about
your roots.
About Ancestry.co.uk
The world's largest family history resource
- Explore over 7 billion genealogical records
- Search 26 million family trees
- Create your FREE family tree
- Follow leaf Hints to follow more ancestors
×