Doss Family History
- Doss Name Meaning
- habitational name for someone from Dosse in Altmark. variant of Dose 1. in Austria (Tyrol) and Switzerland, a topographic name for someone living on a hill, from Ladin dos (from Latin dorsum ‘ridge’, ‘hill top’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 419,660 Historical Documents with Doss on Ancestry
- 138,334 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 50,193 Census and Voter Lists
- 17,566 Military Records
- 2,662 Immigration Records
- 210,905 Member Trees
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Number of Doss families
 4 - 6  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Doss families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Doss 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
Doss census records
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