Kruse Family History
Kruse Name Meaning
German and Danish: nickname for someone with curly hair, a Low
German variant of Kraus.German: from Middle High German
kruse ‘pitcher’, ‘ceramic drinking vessel’; a metonymic
occupational name for a maker or seller of jugs or a nickname for a
heavy drinker.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kruse
Name Distribution of Kruse Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kruse families
 212 - 421  71 - 211 |
 1 - 70  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kruse families
|
17 - 32 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kruse families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Kruse Family Origin
Kruse Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Kruse
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Kruse Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Kruse census records
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Kruse Civil War Service Records
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