English (East Midlands): of uncertain origin, ostensibly a
patronymic, though Reaney believes it to be a nickname from
Anglo-Norman French muisson ‘sparrow’.French:
variant of Musset (see Mussett 1).French: nickname
from Old French moisson, mousson, ‘sparrow’.French:
habitational name from Mousson in Meuse-et-Moselle, named with the
Latin personal name Montius + the suffix -onem, or
alternatively, with Latin mons ‘mountain’ + the suffix
-ionem.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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