Bruse Family History
- Bruse Name Meaning
- German: from a short form of the medieval personal name Ambrosius (see Ambrose). Perhaps from the Slavic stem Brus (as in Brusky or the place name Bruschewitz). Swedish: possibly from a Nordic personal name Bruse, from Old Norse brúsi ‘he-goat’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 64,016 Historical Documents with Bruse on Ancestry
- 25,481 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 10,812 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,008 Military Records
- 1,607 Immigration Records
- 25,108 Member Trees
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Number of Bruse families
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 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bruse families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bruse 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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