Prete Family History
- Prete Name Meaning
- Italian: from prete ‘priest’, derived from Old Italian previte, a nickname for a pious man or for someone in the service of a priest, or for someone suspected of being the son of a priest.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 22,519 Historical Documents with Prete on Ancestry
- 9,229 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,397 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,384 Military Records
- 2,996 Immigration Records
- 4,513 Member Trees
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Number of Prete families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Prete 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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