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Where did the English Priest family come from? What is the English Priest family crest and coat of arms? When did the Priest family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Priest family history?
The ancient name of Priest finds its origins with the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It comes from a name for a priest having derived from the Old English word preost, which means priest. It was also a nickname given to a person with a priestly character, and probably also given to a person with the exact opposite character. A broad and miscellaneous class of surnames, nickname surnames referred to a characteristic of the first person who used the name. They can describe the bearer's favored style of clothing, appearance, habits, or character.
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Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Priest family name include Preost, Priest, Prest, Preist, Prestt, Press and many more.First found in Hertfordshire, where they held a family seat before the Middle Ages.
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Some of the Priest family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 81 words(6 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Priest. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Priest surname or a spelling variation of the name include :
Priest Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- John Priest, his wife Sara, and their daughters Mary and Sarah, who arrived in Massachusetts in 1620 aboard the "Mayflower"
- Degory Priest who arrived in Massachusetts in 1620 aboard the "Mayflower"
- Degory Priest, who landed in Massachusetts in 1620
- Sarah Priest, who landed in America in 1620
- Walter Priest, who arrived in Virginia in 1623
Priest Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Eliza Priest, who arrived in Virginia in 1717
- Catherine Priest, a bonded passenger who arrived in Annapolis, Maryland in 1723
- Abraham Priest, who arrived in Maryland in 1725
- Richard Priest, who arrived in New England in 1731
- Ann Priest, who settled in Maryland in 1750
Priest Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- Angus Priest, aged 46, landed in North Carolina in 1812
- Andreas Priest, aged 26, arrived in New York, NY in 1847
- Albert Priest, who landed in San Francisco, California in 1850
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- Lee Priest, American male bodybuilder
- Dorman E Priest, American optical engineer
- Dana Priest (b. 1959), American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (2006)
- Christopher James Priest (b. 1961), born James Christopher Owsley, American writer of comic books, often credited simply as Priest
- Christopher Priest (b. 1943), English writer
- Alfred Ernest "Fred" Priest (1874-1922), English professional footballer
- Cathy Priest, Canadian female bodybuilder
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- Descendants of Dwight Solomon Priest of Massachusetts and John Henry Linville of North Carolina by Thomas Merriam Linville.
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- Mills, A.D. Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4).
- Egle, William Henry. Pennsylvania Genealogies Scotch-Irish and German. Harrisburg: L.S. Hart, 1886. Print.
- Matthews, John. Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book. London: John Matthews, 1911. Print.
- Skordas, Guest. Ed. The Early Settlers of Maryland an Index to Names or Immigrants Complied from Records of Land Patents 1633-1680 in the Hall of Records Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1968. Print.
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