Priest Family History
- Priest Name Meaning
- English (mainly West Midlands): from Middle English pr(i)est ‘minister of the Church’ (Old English preost, from Latin presbyter, Greek presbyteros ‘elder’, ‘counselor’, comparative of presbys ‘old man’), used as a nickname, either for someone with a pious manner or possibly for someone who had played the part of a priest in a pageant. It may also have been an occupational name for someone in the service of a priest, and occasionally it may have been used to denote someone suspected of being the son of a priest.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 859,995 Historical Documents with Priest on Ancestry
- 272,264 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 162,912 Census and Voter Lists
- 24,935 Military Records
- 11,689 Immigration Records
- 388,195 Member Trees
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Number of Priest families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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32 - 61 11 - 31 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Priest 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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