Primrose Family History
Primrose Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place in Fife, originally named
Prenrhos, from Welsh pren ‘tree’ + rhos ‘moor’,
later altered by folk etymological association with the name of the
flower (Late Latin prima rosa ‘first(-flowering)’ rose).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Primrose
Name Distribution of Primrose Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Primrose families
 15 - 28  6 - 14 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Primrose families
|
87 - 171 30 - 86 |
1 - 29 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Primrose census records
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Primrose Family Origin
Primrose Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Primrose Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Primrose Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Primrose census records
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Military Service by Primrose
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