Dress Family History
- Dress Name Meaning
- German: of uncertain derivation; possibly from a short form of the Germanic personal name Thrasolt, composed with a stem meaning ‘to fight’, or alternatively from the personal name Andreas.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 46,812 Historical Documents with Dress on Ancestry
- 27,069 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,702 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,187 Military Records
- 828 Immigration Records
- 7,026 Member Trees
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Number of Dress families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dress 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
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