Pipe Family History
Pipe Name Meaning
metonymic occupational name for a piper,
from Middle English pipe ‘pipe’ (Old English
pipe). In some cases it may have been a topographic name
from the same word in the sense ‘waterpipe’, ‘conduit’, ‘water
channel’, or a habitational name from Pipe in Herefordshire or
Pipehill in Staffordshire, near Lichfield (earlier Pipa), both
named from this word.occasionally from a personal name,
Pipe, which is recorded in Domesday Book.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Pipe
Name Distribution of Pipe Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pipe families
 181 - 360  61 - 180 |
 1 - 60  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pipe families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pipe census records
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Pipe Family Origin
Pipe Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Pipe families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Pipe Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Pipe census records
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Military Service by Pipe
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