Kresch Family History
- Kresch Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): unexplained; perhaps an altered form of Krat(z)sch, a habitational name from Kratschütz, recorded in 1378 as Kracz. German: from a personal name cognate with Old High German gratag ‘greedy’.German: from the Czech personal name Krec (Kretsch).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,565 Historical Documents with Kresch on Ancestry
- 2,518 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 810 Census and Voter Lists
- 105 Military Records
- 467 Immigration Records
- 665 Member Trees
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Number of Kresch families
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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 the New York Passengers List
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