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besse Name Meaning and History

Southern French: topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from Late Latin bettia ‘birch wood’, a word of Gaulish origin.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the besse family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of besse Families in the US in 1920
Number of besse families
 39-76
 14-38		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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