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cass Name Meaning and History

English: from the medieval female personal name Cass, a short form of Cassandra. This was the name (of uncertain, possibly non-Greek, origin) of an ill-fated Trojan prophetess of classical legend, condemned to foretell the future but never be believed; her story was well known and widely popular in medieval England.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cass Families in the US in 1920
Number of cass families
 108-213
 37-107		 1-36
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Threads: 188 - Messages: 575
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Jim Cass Piano1230 0
My cass line wakemanfamily 1
i'm a cass! kcass08 2
Florence Cass - Fordville, ND Earl Cramton 6
Lewis Cass thrown from horse maryachtrh 0
Hilsingers in Otsego Co., NY CallFosh 0
CENSUS PAGE REQUEST - STEPHEN STONE - 1850 SteveStone94 0
Alfred Cass - Butler/Clinton Co Ohio nancyrevans148 0
Christopher Cass- Quebec jdavis303 0
looking to make contact with Cindy cheriereno57 3
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