Provost Family History
- Provost Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English provost ‘provost’, an occupational name for the head of a religious chapter or educational establishment, or, since such officials were usually clergy and celibate, a nickname for a self-important person. French: northern and western form of Prevost.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 355,991 Historical Documents with Provost on Ancestry
- 122,373 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 68,446 Census and Voter Lists
- 27,402 Military Records
- 5,892 Immigration Records
- 131,878 Member Trees
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Number of Provost families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Provost families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Provost census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Provost families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Provost families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Provost census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Provost ancestors, such as occupation.
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