First name origin & meaning: Old English: Dweller at the church; priest's settlement First name variations: Presley, Priestley, Priestly, Priest, Prestan, Presten, Prestin, Preston Last name origins & meanings:
- English: habitational name from any of the places so called, in
southwestern Lancashire (now Merseyside), Gloucestershire,
Oxfordshire, Shropshire, and Devon, all of which are named from Old
English prēost ‘priest’ + cot ‘cottage’,
‘dwelling’. The surname is most common in Lancashire, and so it seems
likely that the first of these places is the most frequent source. It
is also present in Ireland, being recorded there first in the 15th
century.
- John Prescott of Standish, Lancaster, England, arrived in New
England in 1640 and in 1643 was one of the first settlers of
Lancaster, MA. His descendants include several prominent Americans of
the revolutionary war, including Samuel Prescott, born in Concord, MA,
in 1751, whose fame lies in completing the midnight ride of warning in
1775 after Paul Revere was captured.
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