Breese Family History
- Breese Name Meaning
- English: nickname for an irritating person, from Middle English breeze ‘gadfly’ (Old English breosa). Americanized spelling of the Welsh patronymic ap Rhys ‘son of Rhys’ (see Reese). German: habitational name from any of numerous places called Breese or Breesen, in Mecklenburg, Wendland (near Hannover), Brandenburg, and Pomerania. In some cases the place name is derived from West Slavic brjaza ‘birch’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 165,495 Historical Documents with Breese on Ancestry
- 50,774 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 33,268 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,636 Military Records
- 2,495 Immigration Records
- 73,322 Member Trees
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Number of Breese families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Breese families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Breese 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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