Bress Family History
- Bress Name Meaning
- Probably a variant of French Bresse, ethnic name for someone from the region of France called Bresse, or habitational name from any of various places of this name, derived from the Gallo-Roman personal name Bricius (see Brice).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 13,470 Historical Documents with Bress on Ancestry
- 6,485 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,213 Census and Voter Lists
- 782 Military Records
- 683 Immigration Records
- 2,307 Member Trees
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Number of Bress families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bress census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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