As discussed elsewhere, the Preece name originated in Wales and English border counties, but since the late seventeenth century members of Preece families have travelled overseas, and many of you reading this will be linked to these families, mostly in North America, Australia and New Zealand.

A variety of sources have been searched for details of such journeys, using both obvious links such as the excellent Ellis Island website, passengers lists in printed forms in libraries and transcriptions such as those on the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild site. There are also further lists available on subscription sites as those shown on the Links page.

At present the links below will take you to straightforward lists of the Preece passengers travelling to North America and Australasia, but expansion of this listing will take place in time, both in numbers of entries and the information given. Please remember that this is an ongoing project.

To view the lists, please click on the appropriate link below :-

          Click here to view lists of passengers to USA and Canada.         

Click here to view lists of passengers to Australia and New Zealand.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TERM 'PASSENGER' ALSO REFERS TO MEMBERS OF THE SHIPS CREW. I HOPE TO BE ABLE TO ANNOTATE SUCH ENTRIES CLEARLY IN THE FUTURE, BUT IN THE MEANTIME IF YOU NEED FURTHER INFORMATION OR CLARIFICATION PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND I'LL SEE IF I CAN HELP.