Prior Family History
Prior Name Meaning
Southern English, Scottish, Dutch, and German: ultimately from
Latin prior ‘superior’, used to denote a prior, a monastic
official immediately subordinate to an abbot, hence a nickname for
someone thought to resemble a prior or, more often, an occupational
name for a servant of a prior.Irish: Anglicized form
of Irish Gaelic Mac an Phríora ‘son of the prior’ (this is
the usual origin in Counties Cavan and Leitrim). Some examples may be
Anglo-Norman, the same name as in 1.Portuguese,
Spanish, and Catalan: from prior, probably denoting someone in
the service of a prior or a nickname for someone who behaved in a
pompous way.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Prior
Name Distribution of Prior Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Prior families
 750 - 1,498  251 - 749 |
 1 - 250  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Prior families
|
30 - 57 11 - 29 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Prior census records
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Prior Family Origin
Prior Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Prior families immigrated
to the United States.
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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
Prior Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Prior families immigrated
to Australia.
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 Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Prior Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Prior census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Prior ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Prior
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