Penrose Family History
Penrose Name Meaning
Cornish and Welsh: habitational name from any of the places called
Penrose, in ten parishes of Cornwall, several in Wales, and in
Herefordshire near the Welsh border. All are named with Celtic
pen ‘head’, ‘top’, ‘end’ + ros ‘heath’, ‘moor’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Penrose Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Penrose families
 45 - 87  16 - 44 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Penrose families
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184 - 366 62 - 183 |
1 - 61 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Penrose families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Penrose Family Origin
Penrose Immigration Information
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Penrose Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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