Cressy Family History
- Cressy Name Meaning
- French and English (of Norman origin): habitational name from places in northern France, in Saône-et-Loire, Seine-Maritime, and Somme, all named with the Gallic personal name Crixsos ‘curly-haired man’ (Latin Crixsus) + the Latin locative suffix -acum. Southern French: topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of stony ground, Occitan cres, gres. Possibly a variant of French Cressé: unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 58,278 Historical Documents with Cressy on Ancestry
- 15,099 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 10,462 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,672 Military Records
- 2,869 Immigration Records
- 28,176 Member Trees
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Number of Cressy families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Cressy 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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