Pinson Family History
- Pinson Name Meaning
- English and French: from Old French pinson ‘finch’, perhaps a nickname applied to a bright and cheerful person. English and French: metonymic occupational name for someone who made pincers or forceps or who used them in their work, from Old French pinson ‘pincers’ (a derivative of pincier ‘to pinch’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 367,780 Historical Documents with Pinson on Ancestry
- 85,473 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 31,906 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,556 Military Records
- 2,037 Immigration Records
- 239,808 Member Trees
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Number of Pinson families
 110 - 218  37 - 109 |
 1 - 36  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pinson 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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