Plimpton Family History
Plimpton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Plympton in Devon, named in Old
English with pl¯me ‘plum tree’ + tun ‘settlement’,
‘farmstead’. It may also be a variant of Plumpton, from any of
several places so named, which have the same etymology.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Plimpton
Name Distribution of Plimpton Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Plimpton families
 24 - 45  9 - 23 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Plimpton families
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10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Plimpton census records
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Plimpton Family Origin
Plimpton Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Plimpton
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Plimpton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Plimpton census records
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Plimpton Civil War Service Records
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