Bessette Family History
- Bessette Name Meaning
- French: variant of Besset, from a diminutive of bès ‘birch’, or possibly of French Basset (see Bassette). The ending is not feminine, but reflects the Canadian custom of pronouncing a final -t, which is generally silent in metropolitan French.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 196,010 Historical Documents with Bessette on Ancestry
- 51,174 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 25,801 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,414 Military Records
- 2,170 Immigration Records
- 113,451 Member Trees
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Number of Bessette families
 49 - 95  17 - 48 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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