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Profiles

  • Abraham Aron Prins (1768 - 1850)
    Abraham Aron Prins (1768-1850) was a Rabbi and scholar who ran the rabbinical seminary in Amsterdam for some 40 years Avraham ben Aharon Prins was in the printing business as a partner to the famo...
  • Abraham Prins (1862 - 1884)
  • Abraham Maurits Prins (1937 - 1943)
    Abraham Maurits Prins* Jewish Holocaust Memorials and Jewish Residents of Germany 1939-1945* Birth: Nov 19 1937 - Amsterdam* Death: Sep 10 1943 - Auschwitz
  • Abraham Aron Prins (1866 - 1944)
    ongeveer 2 maanden verblijf in kamp Westerbork, op 8 februari 1944 op transport gesteld naar Auschwitz.Abraham Prins was a lawyer. He worked as a barrister and as a solicitor in Alkmaar and later in Am...
  • Abraham Isaac Prins (1801 - 1861)
    Bruidegom Abram Prins Beroep Koopman Leeftijd 23 jaar Bruid Debora Frank Beroep zonder beroep Leeftijd 19 jaar Vader van de bruidegom Isaac Prins Beroep Koopman Moeder van de bruidegom Judith Philip Ho...

About the Prins surname

Zie ook http://www.hollebeek.nl/family/about.html



A Ayyappan Pillai http://genealogy.familyeducation.com/surname-origin/prins

Last name origins & meanings:

1. Dutch: from Middle Dutch prince ‘prince’, either an occupational name for someone in the service of a prince or a nickname for someone who behaved in a regal manner or who had won the title in some contest of skill.

2. Jewish (from the Netherlands): ornamental adoption of Dutch prins ‘prince’.


There are various Prins families documented on Geni, mostly Dutch Jewish.


There was a Prins family in Ceylon which is well documented in Genealogy of the Family of Prins of Ceylon, Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, Vol XL, January 1950.

This Prins family in Ceylon is not yet well documented on Geni.