Foss Family History
Foss Name Meaning
English: variant spelling of Fosse.Danish:
from fos, vos ‘fox’; a nickname for a sly or cunning
person or a habitational name for someone living at a house
distinguished by the sign of a fox.Norwegian: habitational name
from a farmstead so named from Old Norse fors ‘waterfall’,
examples of which are found throughout Norway.Altered spelling of
German Voss or the Dutch cognate Vos.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Foss
Name Distribution of Foss Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Foss families
 164 - 326  55 - 163 |
 1 - 54  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Foss families
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58 - 113 20 - 57 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Foss families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Foss census records
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Foss Family Origin
Foss Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Foss
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Foss Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Foss census records
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Foss Civil War Service Records
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