Prestwich Family History
- Prestwich Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from places in Lancashire (now Greater Manchester) and Northumbria, so called from Old English preost ‘priest’ + wic ‘outlying settlement’. Compare Preston.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 44,061 Historical Documents with Prestwich on Ancestry
- 17,269 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,981 Census and Voter Lists
- 838 Military Records
- 774 Immigration Records
- 19,199 Member Trees
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Number of Prestwich families
 176 - 349  59 - 175 |
 1 - 58  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Prestwich families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Prestwich census records
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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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You can find out when most of the Prestwich families immigrated to Australia. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Prestwich census records
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