Corse Family History
- Corse Name Meaning
- 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
- 52,528 Historical Documents with Corse on Ancestry
- 16,269 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,577 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,215 Military Records
- 1,550 Immigration Records
- 22,917 Member Trees
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Number of Corse families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Corse families
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12 - 21 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Corse 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 1881 UK Census Data
Corse census records
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