Pray Family History
- Pray Name Meaning
- Irish (chiefly County Down): variant of Prey. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Middle English pre(y), Old French pree ‘meadow’, or a habitational name from any of the minor places deriving their name from this word, of which there are several examples in Surrey.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 188,015 Historical Documents with Pray on Ancestry
- 47,878 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 29,714 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,967 Military Records
- 2,526 Immigration Records
- 100,930 Member Trees
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Number of Pray families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pray families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Pray 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
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