HELP-the name PILGRIM

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Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 20 615 Send Message	Heather	Report	10 Apr 2006 09:32
	There is a big group of Pilgrims in Norfolk.
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 9 259 Send Message	Porkie_Pie	Report	9 Apr 2006 19:39
	try this site. http://www.answers(.)com/topic/pilgrims remove bracket Roy
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 0 Send Message	Rosemary	Report	9 Apr 2006 19:04
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 0 Send Message	From the Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames Pilgrim: A wanderer who went on distances to visit a shrine. One who traveled from foreign lands. Traveler. Varients: Pegram, Peregrine Another source for Surname Origins: pilgrim English (East Anglia) and German: from Middle English pilegrim, pelgrim, Middle High German bilgerin, pilgerin ‘pilgrim’ (Latin peregrinus, pelegrinus ‘traveler’), a nickname for a person who had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land or to some seat of devotion nearer home, such as Santiago de Compostella, Rome, or Canterbury. Such pilgrimages were often imposed as penances, graver sins requiring more arduous journeys. In both England and Germany Pilgrim was occasionally used as a personal name, from which the surname could also have arisen. Rose
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	Lassie	Report	9 Apr 2006 18:54
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	does anyone know where this name originates?? Lincolnshire??