Gressel Family History
Gressel Name Meaning
diminutive of Gress 1.nickname for a
big person, from a variant of grössl, a diminutive of
gross ‘big’.variant of Grässel (see
Grassel).variant of the personal name Erasmus,
Latinized form of Greek Erasmos, a derivative of eran
‘to love’. St. Erasmus (died 303) was a bishop of Formiae in Campania,
martyred under Diocletian; he is numbered among the Fourteen Holy
Helpers and is a patron of sailors.
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Name Distribution of Gressel Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gressel families
 10 - 17  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gressel Family Origin
Gressel Emigration Information (US)
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Gressel Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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