Pilgrim Family History
- Pilgrim Name Meaning
- English (East Anglia) and German: from Middle English pilegrim, pelgrim, Middle High German bilgerin, pilgerin ‘pilgrim’ (Latin peregrinus, pelegrinus ‘traveler’), a nickname for a person who had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land or to some seat of devotion nearer home, such as Santiago de Compostella, Rome, or Canterbury. Such pilgrimages were often imposed as penances, graver sins requiring more arduous journeys. In both England and Germany Pilgrim was occasionally used as a personal name, from which the surname could also have arisen.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 305,252 Historical Documents with Pilgrim on Ancestry
- 100,382 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 71,407 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,881 Military Records
- 5,898 Immigration Records
- 119,684 Member Trees
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Number of Pilgrim families
 189 - 376  64 - 188 |
 1 - 63  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pilgrim families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Pilgrim 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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You can find out when most of the Pilgrim families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Pilgrim census records
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