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Wess Name Meaning
German: from a short form of the personal name Wasmuot.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Wess Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wess families
 27 - 52  10 - 26 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wess families
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17 - 31 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wess families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wess census records
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Wess Family Origin
Wess Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Wess
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Wess Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Wess census records
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Wess Civil War Service Records
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