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The thiessen Surname

thiessen Name Meaning and History

North German and Danish: reduced form of the personal name Matthias or Mathies(s) (see Matthew).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The thiessen name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the thiessen family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of thiessen Families in the US in 1920
Number of thiessen families
 23-44
 8-22		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Claus Thiessen SMuller97352 5
Albert Wayne Thiessen Sarah Traver 1
Helena, Sara, And Anna Thiesen Thiessen Suzane 1
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Lena Thiessen SMuller97352 4
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Julius Thiessen, Molotschna Dietrich Tissen 0
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