Vass Family History
Vass Name Meaning
English: status name denoting a serf, Middle English, Old
French vass(e), from Late Latin vassus, of Celtic
origin. Compare Welsh gwas ‘boy’, Gaelic foss
‘servant’.English: variant of Vause.Swedish: variant
of Wass.South German: variant of Fass.Hungarian: from vas ‘iron’, hence a metonymic occupational
name for a blacksmith, or a nickname for a resilient, tough man.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Vass
Name Distribution of Vass Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Vass families
 29 - 56  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Vass families
|
71 - 140 24 - 70 |
1 - 23 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Vass families
|
120 - 238 41 - 119 |
1 - 40 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Vass census records
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Vass Family Origin
Vass Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Vass
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Vass Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Vass census records
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Vass Civil War Service Records
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