Reese Family History
- Reese Name Meaning
- Welsh: from one of the most common Welsh personal names, Rhys, Old Welsh Ris ‘ardor’. This was the name of the last ruler of an independent kingdom of Wales, Rhys ap Tewder, who died in 1093 unsuccessfully opposing the Norman advance. North German and Dutch: nickname for a very big man, from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch rese ‘giant’. German: habitational name from places called Rees or Reese, in Rhineland and Lower Saxony.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,526,186 Historical Documents with Reese on Ancestry
- 545,591 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 275,759 Census and Voter Lists
- 78,840 Military Records
- 21,590 Immigration Records
- 604,406 Member Trees
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Number of Reese families
 45 - 88  16 - 44 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Reese families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Reese 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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