Preston Family Facts

Preston Veterans Allegiance Total Veterans of
the Civil War
334 Confederate 1,050,000
1123 Union 2,213,363
1457 Combined 3,263,363

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the Civil War Service Records.

 

Preston Immigration by Year

 

Preston Average Life Expectancy Compared to the General Public

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the Social Security Death Index.

 

Preston Name History and Origin
  1. English: habitational name from any of the extremely numerous places (most notably one in Lancashire) so called from Old English preost ‘priest’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the meaning may have been either ‘village with a priest’ or ‘village held by the Church’.
  2. Scottish: habitational name from Presto(u)n, now Craigmillar, in Midlothian. This name has also been established in Ireland since the 13th century.

 

Place of Origin Preston Immigrants
England
431
Ireland
162
Great Britian
81
Scotland
47
Haiti
19
Germany
15

 

Ports of Departure for Preston

Port Preston Immigrants
Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland 440
Liverpool, England 383
Aspinwall, Panama 47
Glasgow, Scotland 39
London, England 37
Glasgow, Scotland and Moville, Ireland 35

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists

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