Brees Family History
- Brees Name Meaning
- Dutch: habitational name from any of the various places in France named Buré, for example in Orne and Meurthe-et-Moselle, or from a Dutch form of the personal name Brictius.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 52,968 Historical Documents with Brees on Ancestry
- 13,441 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,275 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,772 Military Records
- 519 Immigration Records
- 28,961 Member Trees
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Number of Brees families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brees families
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1 1 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Brees census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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