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The gless Surname

gless Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name for someone from Glessen near Cologne or from Glesse on the river of that name near Hameln.
  2. perhaps a reduced form of Swiss Glesser or Glessmann, variants of Glaser.

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Distribution of gless Families in the US in 1920
Number of gless families
 13-24
 5-12
 1-4
 0
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Frederick Gless family of Earl twp, Lancaster county, Pa. midge1249 0
Germany F. Gless 6
Naomi Amelia Gless alice0008 1

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