Peters Family History
Peters Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the
personal name Peter.Irish: Anglicized
form (translation) of Gaelic Mac Pheadair ‘son of Peter’.Americanized form of cognate surnames in other languages,
for example Dutch and North German Pieters.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Peters
Name Distribution of Peters Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Peters families
 961 - 1,920  321 - 960 |
 1 - 320  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Peters families
|
144 - 285 49 - 143 |
1 - 48 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Peters census records
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Peters Family Origin
Peters Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Peters Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Peters families immigrated
to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Peters Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Peters census records
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Military Service by Peters
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