Risse Family History
- Risse Name Meaning
- variant of Riss. perhaps a habitational name for someone from Rissen, west of Hamburg. Bahlow identifies riss as a word meaning ‘swamp’, ‘marsh’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 38,990 Historical Documents with Risse on Ancestry
- 24,201 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,223 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,882 Military Records
- 1,315 Immigration Records
- 7,369 Member Trees
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Number of Risse families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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