Prior Family History
Prior Name Meaning
Southern English, Scottish, Dutch, and German: ultimately from
Latin prior ‘superior’, used to denote a prior, a monastic
official immediately subordinate to an abbot, hence a nickname for
someone thought to resemble a prior or, more often, an occupational
name for a servant of a prior.Irish: Anglicized form
of Irish Gaelic Mac an Phríora ‘son of the prior’ (this is
the usual origin in Counties Cavan and Leitrim). Some examples may be
Anglo-Norman, the same name as in 1.Portuguese,
Spanish, and Catalan: from prior, probably denoting someone in
the service of a prior or a nickname for someone who behaved in a
pompous way.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Prior
Name Distribution of Prior Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Prior families
 80 - 157  27 - 79 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Prior families
|
750 - 1,498 251 - 749 |
1 - 250 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Prior families
|
30 - 57 11 - 29 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Prior census records
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Prior Family Origin
Prior Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Prior
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Prior Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Prior census records
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Prior Civil War Service Records
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