Perkins Family History
Perkins Name Meaning
English: patronymic from Perkin, also found throughout
mid and south Wales.Dutch: patronymic from a pet form of
Peer, a Dutch form of Peter.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Perkins
Name Distribution of Perkins Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Perkins families
 1,038 - 2,073  347 - 1,037 |
 1 - 346  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Perkins families
|
14 - 26 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Perkins census records
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Perkins Family Origin
Perkins Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Perkins Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Perkins Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Perkins census records
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Military Service by Perkins
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