Perkins Family History
- Perkins Name Meaning
- English: patronymic from Perkin, also found throughout mid and south Wales. Dutch: patronymic from a pet form of Peer, a Dutch form of Peter.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 5,005,322 Historical Documents with Perkins on Ancestry
- 1,510,082 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 876,170 Census and Voter Lists
- 165,765 Military Records
- 64,341 Immigration Records
- 2,388,964 Member Trees
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Number of Perkins families
 1,038 - 2,073  347 - 1,037 |
 1 - 346  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Perkins families
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94 - 186 32 - 93 |
1 - 31 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Perkins census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Perkins census records
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