Goss Family History
- Goss Name Meaning
- English (chiefly West Country): variant of Gosse. German: from the Germanic personal name Gozzo, a short form of the various compound names with the first element god ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,186,909 Historical Documents with Goss on Ancestry
- 284,799 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 168,137 Census and Voter Lists
- 33,370 Military Records
- 14,702 Immigration Records
- 685,901 Member Trees
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Number of Goss families
 228 - 453  77 - 227 |
 1 - 76  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Goss families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Goss 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 the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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