Breese Family History
Breese Name Meaning
English: nickname for an irritating person, from Middle English
breeze ‘gadfly’ (Old English breosa).Americanized spelling of the Welsh patronymic ap Rhys ‘son
of Rhys’ (see Reese).German: habitational name from
any of numerous places called Breese or Breesen, in Mecklenburg,
Wendland (near Hannover), Brandenburg, and Pomerania. In some cases
the place name is derived from West Slavic brjaza ‘birch’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Breese Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Breese families
 45 - 87  16 - 44 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Breese families
|
56 - 109 19 - 55 |
1 - 18 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Breese Family Origin
Breese Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Breese
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Breese Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Breese census records
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Breese Civil War Service Records
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