Pigeon Family History
Pigeon Name Meaning
French: from pigeon ‘pigeon’ (Old French pijon
‘young bird’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of
wood pigeons, or a nickname for a foolish or gullible person, since
the birds are easily taken.In some cases, an altered form of
French PetitJean.English: variant spelling of
Pidgeon.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Pigeon
Name Distribution of Pigeon Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pigeon families
 28 - 54  10 - 27 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Pigeon families
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16 - 29 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pigeon families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Pigeon Family Origin
Pigeon Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Pigeon
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Pigeon Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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