Preston Family History
Preston Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the extremely numerous
places (most notably one in Lancashire) so called from Old English
preost ‘priest’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’;
the meaning may have been either ‘village with a priest’ or ‘village
held by the Church’.Scottish: habitational name from
Presto(u)n, now Craigmillar, in Midlothian. GFB This name has also
been established in Ireland since the 13th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Preston
Name Distribution of Preston Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Preston families
 1,569 - 3,135  524 - 1,568 |
 1 - 523  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Preston families
|
138 - 273 47 - 137 |
1 - 46 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Preston census records
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Preston Family Origin
Preston Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Preston Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Preston Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Preston census records
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Military Service by Preston
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