Pilgrim Family History
Pilgrim Name Meaning
English (East Anglia) and German: from Middle English pilegrim, pelgrim, Middle High German bilgerin, pilgerin ‘pilgrim’ (Latin peregrinus, pelegrinus ‘traveler’), a nickname for a person who had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land or to some seat of devotion nearer home, such as Santiago de Compostella, Rome, or Canterbury. Such pilgrimages were often imposed as penances, graver sins requiring more arduous journeys. In both England and Germany Pilgrim was occasionally used as a personal name, from which the surname could also have arisen.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Pilgrim
Name Distribution of Pilgrim Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pilgrim families
 189 - 376  64 - 188 |
 1 - 63  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pilgrim families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pilgrim census records
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Pilgrim Family Origin
Pilgrim Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Pilgrim Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Pilgrim families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Pilgrim Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Pilgrim census records
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Military Service by Pilgrim
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