Pringle Family History
Pringle Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Northumbria): habitational name from a place
near Stow Roxburghshire, formerly called Hop(p)ringle, from
Middle English hop ‘enclosed valley’ + a name of Old Norse
origin composed of the byname Prjónn ‘pin’, ‘peg’ + an
unidentified second element.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Pringle
Name Distribution of Pringle Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pringle families
 463 - 924  155 - 462 |
 1 - 154  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pringle families
|
316 - 629 106 - 315 |
1 - 105 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pringle census records
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Pringle Family Origin
Pringle Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Pringle Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Pringle Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Pringle census records
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Military Service by Pringle
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