When Joan Muriel Priest was born on 7 January 1899, in Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Henry Godwin Priest, was 32 and her mother, Gertrude Maud Curzon, was 33. She lived in Northfield, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom in 1939. She died on 8 February 1985, in Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 86, and was buried in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English (mainly West Midlands): nickname from Middle English pr(i)est ‘minister of the Church’ (Old English prēost, from Latin presbyter, Greek presbyteros ‘elder, counselor’, comparative of presbys ‘old man’). It may have denoted someone with a pious manner or possibly for someone who had played the part of a priest in a pageant. It may occasionally have been used to denote someone suspected of being the son of a priest but evidence for this is lacking.
History: A John Priest is recorded as being in Woburn, MA, as early as 1675. The Mayflower Pilgrim Digory Priest of the Netherlands died the first winter at Plymouth in 1620, leaving behind a widow who remarried and two daughters, who did not pass on the surname.
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