English: habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire
named Corse, from Welsh cors ‘marsh’, ‘bog’.Scottish: topographic name from northern Middle English
cors, corse ‘cross’, or a habitational name for someone
from any of various places, for example in Grampian and Orkney, named
with this word.Danish or Dutch: from the personal
name Corsse, a variant of Carsten, which was borne by
Scandinavian settlers in New Netherland in the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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