Fossey Family History
Fossey Name Meaning
English (Bedfordshire): habitational name from a lost place in
Bedfordshire, recorded in 969 as Foteseige, from Old English
foss ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ + eg ‘island’, ‘dry land in
marsh’, ‘promontory’, or a topographic name for someone who lived on
low lying land by a ditch or dike. dktent; 1881 British census has
562; RW.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
29,100
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Name Distribution of Fossey Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fossey families
 58 - 113  20 - 57 |
 1 - 19  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Fossey Family Origin
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Fossey Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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