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 the USA, Australia and New Zealand, with lesser numbers in Canada.

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.

At present the links below will take you to straightforward lists of the Preece passengers travelling to North America and Australasia, but it is hoped to expand this listing in time, both in numbers of entries and the information given. Please remember that this is an ongoing project, and more names will be added to this section as they are extracted from records.

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

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

Click here for 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 NEAR FUTURE, BUT IN THE MEANTIME IF YOU NEED FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE LET ME KNOW.