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pheasant Name Meaning and History

English (Wolverhampton): metonymic occupational name for a breeder of pheasants or a birdcatcher, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird, from Middle English fesaunt ‘pheasant’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of pheasant Families in the US in 1920
Number of pheasant families
 21-39
 8-20		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 15 - Messages: 53
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Pheasant ENG>IA antoinette vawter 25
Pheasant ElaineLindebringhs 0
Rachel Pheasant Bartlett sam4159 0
Thomas Pheasant Healjean 0
mary molly pheasant-england- oklahoma debbie england crank 0
more on the PHEASANT history lester p. pheasant johnstown pa 2
Ricky Pheasant obituary puppup 0
Pheasants buried at Cass Twp., Huntingdon Co., PA DonnaFOX29 0
Pheasant family Philip Mann 8
Samuel Pheasant b.1752 Antoinette Vawter 0
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