Primrose Family History
Primrose Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place in Fife, originally named
Prenrhos, from Welsh pren ‘tree’ + rhos ‘moor’,
later altered by folk etymological association with the name of the
flower (Late Latin prima rosa ‘first(-flowering)’ rose).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Primrose Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Primrose families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Primrose families
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15 - 28 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Primrose families
|
87 - 171 30 - 86 |
1 - 29 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Primrose Family Origin
Primrose Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Primrose
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Primrose Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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