Preston Family History
Preston Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the extremely numerous
places (most notably one in Lancashire) so called from Old English
preost ‘priest’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’;
the meaning may have been either ‘village with a priest’ or ‘village
held by the Church’.Scottish: habitational name from
Presto(u)n, now Craigmillar, in Midlothian. GFB This name has also
been established in Ireland since the 13th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Preston Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Preston families
 322 - 641  108 - 321 |
 1 - 107  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Preston families
|
1,569 - 3,135 524 - 1,568 |
1 - 523 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Preston families
|
138 - 273 47 - 137 |
1 - 46 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Preston Family Origin
Preston Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Preston
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Preston Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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