Ness Family History
- Ness Name Meaning
- Scandinavian (especially Norwegian), Scottish, and northern English: topographic name for someone who lived on a headland or promontory, Old Norse nes, or a habitational name from any of the numerous places named with this word; there are over a hundred farms in Norway and many settlements in Scotland and northern England so named English: according to Reaney and Wilson, a variant of Nash. German: habitational name from places called Nesse in Oldenburg and Friesland. German: from a short form of the female personal name Agnes (see Agnes 1).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 488,505 Historical Documents with Ness on Ancestry
- 183,356 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 86,316 Census and Voter Lists
- 36,580 Military Records
- 16,519 Immigration Records
- 165,734 Member Trees
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Number of Ness families
 78 - 153  27 - 77 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ness families
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10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Ness 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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