Prescott Family History
Prescott Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places so called, in
southwestern Lancashire (now Merseyside), Gloucestershire,
Oxfordshire, Shropshire, and Devon, all of which are named from Old
English preost ‘priest’ + cot ‘cottage’,
‘dwelling’. The surname is most common in Lancashire, and so it seems
likely that the first of these places is the most frequent source. It
is also present in Ireland, being recorded there first in the 15th
century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Prescott
Name Distribution of Prescott Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Prescott families
 1,493 - 2,983  498 - 1,492 |
 1 - 497  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Prescott families
|
11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Prescott Family Origin
Prescott Emigration Information (US)
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Prescott Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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