Hess Family History
Hess Name Meaning
German, Dutch, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): regional name
for someone from the territory of Hesse (German Hessen).South German: from a short form of the personal name
Matthäus (see Matthew).German and Dutch: from
the Germanic personal name Hesso.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hess
Name Distribution of Hess Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hess families
 40 - 78  14 - 39 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hess families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hess census records
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Hess Family Origin
Hess Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hess Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hess census records
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Military Service by Hess
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