Last name: PINKERTON

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All you have to know about the last name PINKERTON

Last name frequency

PINKERTON : This last name is indexed 28,636 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

PINKERTON : Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from a place near Dunbar which is from Scots pincern ‘butler’ + toun ‘farm holding settlement’. This surname has been established in Ireland since the 18th century if not earlier.

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