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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 70,076 Historical Documents with Plimpton on Ancestry
- 14,319 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,135 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,334 Military Records
- 1,394 Immigration Records
- 46,894 Member Trees
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Number of Plimpton families
 24 - 45  9 - 23 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Plimpton families
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10 - 17 4 - 9 |
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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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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Plimpton census records
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- All Plimpton
- 45
- Confederate
- Union
- 45
from the Civil War Service Records
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