Pratt Family History
- Pratt Name Meaning
- English: nickname for a clever trickster, from Old English prætt ‘trick’, ‘tricky’, ‘cunning’ (which is found in use as a byname in the 11th century). This surname is quite common in southeastern Ireland.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,717,655 Historical Documents with Pratt on Ancestry
- 1,139,541 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 771,635 Census and Voter Lists
- 115,890 Military Records
- 65,399 Immigration Records
- 1,625,190 Member Trees
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Number of Pratt families
 1,214 - 2,425  405 - 1,213 |
 1 - 404  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pratt families
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164 - 325 55 - 163 |
1 - 54 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pratt 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 the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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