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Besse Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Besse Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Besse families
 39 - 76  14 - 38 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Besse families
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11 - 20 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Besse families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Besse census records
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Besse Family Origin
Besse Immigration Information
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Besse Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Besse Civil War Service Records
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