Pretty Family History
- Pretty Name Meaning
- English (chiefly East Anglia): nickname for a fine or handsome fellow, from Middle English prety, prity ‘fine’, ‘pleasing’, ‘excellent’ (Old English prættig ‘clever’, ‘artful’, ‘wily’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 153,144 Historical Documents with Pretty on Ancestry
- 52,131 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 44,674 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,473 Military Records
- 2,782 Immigration Records
- 44,084 Member Trees
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Number of Pretty families
 149 - 296  50 - 148 |
 1 - 49  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pretty families
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25 - 48 9 - 24 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Pretty 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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