Gress Family History
Gress Name Meaning
from a short form of a Germanic nickname
that may be derived from Old High German gratag ‘greedy’.from Middle Low German grese ‘horror’, ‘fear’, a nickname
for someone who was feared in the community.habitational name
from Gress, a place in Mecklenburg.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Gress Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gress families
 66 - 129  23 - 65 |
 1 - 22  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gress families
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9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gress Family Origin
Gress Immigration Information
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Gress Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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