Ress Family History
- Ress Name Meaning
- nickname for an irascible or excitable man, from Middle High German ræsse ‘wild’, ‘raging’. (Bavaria): topographic name from ress ‘slope’ or ‘drainage channel’. from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with rad, rat ‘advice’, ‘counsel’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 54,159 Historical Documents with Ress on Ancestry
- 26,571 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,692 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,647 Military Records
- 3,223 Immigration Records
- 5,026 Member Trees
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Number of Ress families
 21 - 40  8 - 20 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ress families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Ress 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
Ress census records
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