Pera Family History
- Pera Name Meaning
- Catalan and Portuguese: habitational name from La Pera, a town in Girona province, Catalonia, or from any of various places called Pera in Portugal, from Latin Petra ‘stone’. Italian: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of pears, from pera ‘pear’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 47,035 Historical Documents with Pera on Ancestry
- 27,439 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,969 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,161 Military Records
- 4,677 Immigration Records
- 5,789 Member Trees
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Number of Pera families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pera census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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