Priolo Family History
- Priolo Name Meaning
- Italian (southern Calabria and Sicily): from priòlu, priùli, southern Italian derivatives of Greek priolos ‘prior’, also ‘lay authority’. The Greek word in turn is derived from Latin prior. This was a nickname for someone thought to resemble a prior or an occupational name for a servant of a prior or some important lay personage. Italian: habitational name from Priolo in Siracusa province, Sicily. Altered spelling of French Prioleau.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 10,869 Historical Documents with Priolo on Ancestry
- 5,654 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,509 Census and Voter Lists
- 555 Military Records
- 1,388 Immigration Records
- 1,763 Member Trees
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Number of Priolo families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Priolo census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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