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blissett Name Meaning and History

English: nickname for a fortunate person, from Middle English (i)blescede, blissed ‘blessed’ (from Old English bletsian ‘to bless’). The word also appears to have been in use in the Middle Ages as a female personal name, and some cases of the surname may be derived from this.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of blissett Families in the US in 1920
Number of blissett families
 6-9
 3-5		 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 17 - Messages: 64
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Blissett of BERKS, England 1840's SMeale7891 19
Northamptonshire Blissetts Sarah Dickens 2
blissett pamela cook leudy@barnet.net 6
Virginia Blissett Holley New York jonebjohnson 1
william theselton blissett newbarn6 0
Lloyd D Blissett catackett 0
blissett blisstte 0
Blissett Edington Wiltshire Jan Forster 5
Blissett/Bankston Family donbankston 2
William Alexander Blissitt of Ga. Lanny97 3
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