Dress Family History
- Dress Name Meaning
- German: of uncertain derivation; possibly from a short form of the Germanic personal name Thrasolt, composed with a stem meaning ‘to fight’, or alternatively from the personal name Andreas.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 50,080 Historical Documents with Dress on Ancestry
- 26,606 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,908 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,131 Military Records
- 802 Immigration Records
- 8,633 Member Trees
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Number of Dress families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Dress 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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