Cressy Family History
- Cressy Name Meaning
- French and English (of Norman origin): habitational name from places in northern France, in Saône-et-Loire, Seine-Maritime, and Somme, all named with the Gallic personal name Crixsos ‘curly-haired man’ (Latin Crixsus) + the Latin locative suffix -acum. Southern French: topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of stony ground, Occitan cres, gres. Possibly a variant of French Cressé: unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 91,578 Historical Documents with Cressy on Ancestry
- 14,486 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 10,444 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,579 Military Records
- 2,845 Immigration Records
- 62,224 Member Trees
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Number of Cressy families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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40 - 77 14 - 39 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- All Cressy
- 91
- Confederate
- 4
- Union
- 87
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