Prator Family History
- Prator Name Meaning
- German (Prätor): Latinized humanistic form of any of various surnames meaning ‘leader’ or ‘headman’, for example Mayer, Schultz, and Vogt. It is from Latin praetor, the title of various officials in Republican and Imperial Rome.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 15,544 Historical Documents with Prator on Ancestry
- 4,041 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,264 Census and Voter Lists
- 673 Military Records
- 110 Immigration Records
- 6,456 Member Trees
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Number of Prator families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Prator families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Prator census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Prator census records
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