Peters Family History
Peters Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the
personal name Peter.Irish: Anglicized
form (translation) of Gaelic Mac Pheadair ‘son of Peter’.Americanized form of cognate surnames in other languages,
for example Dutch and North German Pieters.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Peters Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Peters families
 1,020 - 2,037  341 - 1,019 |
 1 - 340  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Peters families
|
961 - 1,920 321 - 960 |
1 - 320 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Peters families
|
144 - 285 49 - 143 |
1 - 48 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Peters census records
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Peters Family Origin
Peters Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Peters
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Peters Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Peters census records
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Peters Civil War Service Records
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