Gass Family History
Gass Name Meaning
South German, Swiss, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name
for someone who lived in a street in a city, town, or village, Middle
High German gazze, German Gasse, Yiddish gas
‘street’, ‘side street’.English: variant of Gash.Altered spelling of German Gast, found in the areas of
Swiss settlement.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Gass Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gass families
 79 - 156  27 - 78 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gass families
|
38 - 74 13 - 37 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gass families
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41 - 80 14 - 40 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gass census records
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Gass Family Origin
Gass Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Gass
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Gass Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Gass census records
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