Moss Family History
Moss Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the personal name Moss, a Middle
English vernacular form of the Biblical name Moses.English
and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a peat bog,
Middle English, Old English mos, or a habitational name from a
place named with this word. (It was not until later that the
vocabulary word came to denote the class of plants characteristic of a
peat-bog habitat, under the influence of the related Old Norse word
mosi.Americanized form of Moses or some
other like-sounding Jewish surname.Irish (Ulster): part
translation of Gaelic Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of
Maolmhóna’, a personal name composed of the elements
maol ‘servant’, ‘tonsured one’, ‘devotee’ + a second element
which was assumed to be móin (genitive móna)
‘moorland’, ‘peat bog’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Moss
Name Distribution of Moss Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Moss families
 2,101 - 4,200  701 - 2,100 |
 1 - 700  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Moss families
|
48 - 93 17 - 47 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Moss Family Origin
Moss Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Moss Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Moss Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Moss
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