Ghezzi Family History
- Ghezzi Name Meaning
- Italian: patronymic or plural form of a nickname from Old Italian ghezzo ‘dark’ , with reference to hair-, beard-, or skin-color. The term originally related to horses, and in some cases the name may have alluded to the owner of an animal of this color. Ghezzo is also recorded as a personal name, of Germanic origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 7,101 Historical Documents with Ghezzi on Ancestry
- 3,438 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,233 Census and Voter Lists
- 277 Military Records
- 1,088 Immigration Records
- 1,065 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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