Bess Family History
Bess Name Meaning
English: unexplained. Apparently a metronymic from the female personal name Bess, pet form of Elizabeth. pwh; IGI.German: short form of Betz. EXG EG lists a variant.In some cases it is probably an altered spelling of French Besse.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bess
Name Distribution of Bess Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bess families
 28 - 53  10 - 27 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bess families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bess Family Origin
Bess Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Bess Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bess census records
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