Boss Family History
- Boss Name Meaning
- English: nickname for a hunchback, from Old French bossu ‘hunchbacked’ (a derivative of bosse ‘lump’, ‘hump’; compare Bossard 2). German: from a short form of the personal name Borkhardt, a variant of Burkhart. Possibly an altered spelling of South German Bös (see Bos). Danish: medieval variant of Buus, a surname of uncertain origin, perhaps from German busemen ‘devil’, ‘ghost’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 427,501 Historical Documents with Boss on Ancestry
- 154,508 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 81,659 Census and Voter Lists
- 18,342 Military Records
- 7,382 Immigration Records
- 165,610 Member Trees
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Number of Boss families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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10 - 17 4 - 9 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Boss census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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