Sandness Family History

Sandness Name Meaning

Respelling of Norwegian Sandnes, a habitational name from any of fifty or more farmsteads all over Norway, so named from Old Norse Sandnes, a compound of sand ‘sand’, ‘sandy plain’, ‘beach’ + nes ‘headland’, ‘promontory’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Number of Sandness families

3 - 2

2 - 2

from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data

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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

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SANDNESS, DOLLNIG, GREEN; Eureka, CA	ROCKNBS	0
Sandness Family	nanakayro	0
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Peter K Sandness	PatSandness	0

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