Prairie Family History
Prairie Name Meaning
French: topographic name from prairie ‘meadow’,
‘pasture’. In North America this is often a translation of French
surnames such as Lepre and Dupre.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Prairie
Name Distribution of Prairie Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Prairie census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Prairie surname lived over the years.
While the questions in census records vary from place to place, and year to year, you can generally find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, occupations, etc.
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Prairie Family Origin
Prairie Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Prairie emigration records
You can find out when most of the Prairie 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.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Prairie Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Prairie census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Prairie ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Prairie
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