found: Work cat.: Laflin, S. History of the Preen family. Vol. 2, 2012:introd. (The Preen family originated in the Domesday manor of Prene which later split into the parish of Church Preen and the township of Holt Preen in the parish of Cardington; the Preens spread from there throughout the West Midlands and later all over the world)
found: Preen Family History website, 9 Oct. 2013(the Preen family was found in Shropshire and, to a lesser extent, elsewhere in the West Midlands from the start of the parish registers in the mid sixteenth century (1550 onwards); the present theory is that they took their name from the Domesday manor of "Prene")
notfound: Am. family names;Cent. pop. growth