Paradise Family History
- Paradise Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: from Old French paradis, denoting someone who lived by a park or pleasure garden, especially one attached to a monastery, nunnery, or cathedral. Americanized form of French Paradis or Italian Paradiso. Americanized form of a Greek family name such as Paradissis, Paradissiadis, or Paradissopoulos, from a personal name based on ancient Greek paradeisos ‘paradise’, ‘pleasure garden’, from Persian pairidaesa ‘royal park’. Americanized form of German Paradies, a German topographic name and house name and an ornamental Ashkenazic Jewish name, from Middle High German paradis(e), German Paradies ‘paradise’, ‘park’, ‘pleasure garden’ (see 1 and 3).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 90,299 Historical Documents with Paradise on Ancestry
- 31,093 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 17,530 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,658 Military Records
- 2,314 Immigration Records
- 34,704 Member Trees
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Number of Paradise families
 38 - 74  13 - 37 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Paradise families
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22 - 41 8 - 21 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Paradise census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- All Paradise
- 30
- Confederate
- 17
- Union
- 13
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