Corse Family History

English: habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire named Corse, from Welsh cors ‘marsh’, ‘bog’. Scottish: topographic name from northern Middle English cors, corse ‘cross’, or a habitational name for someone from any of various places, for example in Grampian and Orkney, named with this word. Danish or Dutch: from the personal name Corsse, a variant of Carsten, which was borne by Scandinavian settlers in New Netherland in the 17th century.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press