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prairie Name Meaning and History

French: topographic name from prairie ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’. In North America this is often a translation of French surnames such as Lepre and Dupre.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The prairie name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the prairie family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of prairie Families in the US in 1920
Number of prairie families
 10-17
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 29 - Messages: 98
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Mrs. Mollie Prairie received a verdict in her lawsuit against Shawnee Light and Power Company maryachtrh 0
Joseph P. Prairie bc 1834 Lower Canada stemmatis 1
Prairie dit Piedalue lttlefeathr 3
Prairies in MA Pamela Banning 8
Prairie LouiseRegnier75 0
Looking for Prairie Melanie Maynard 0
Prairie/Chavez Eva Hahn 0
Forefather from Rhode Island Ken Prairie 8
Ellen L. Prairie obit from NY 2000 LauraRivers66 0
John Prairie from Kankakee, IL rantosh 11
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