Twiss Family History
Twiss Name Meaning
habitational name from Twiss in
Lancashire, named from Old English (ge)twis ‘forking’, used as
a noun to mean ‘fork in a river’.variant of
Twist.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Twiss
Name Distribution of Twiss Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Twiss families
 61 - 120  21 - 60 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Twiss families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Twiss census records
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Twiss Family Origin
Twiss Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Twiss Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Twiss census records
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Military Service by Twiss
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