Gress Family History
- Gress Name Meaning
- from a short form of a Germanic nickname that may be derived from Old High German gratag ‘greedy’. from Middle Low German grese ‘horror’, ‘fear’, a nickname for someone who was feared in the community. habitational name from Gress, a place in Mecklenburg.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 130,056 Historical Documents with Gress on Ancestry
- 66,192 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 17,823 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,820 Military Records
- 3,370 Immigration Records
- 28,851 Member Trees
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Number of Gress families
 9 - 15  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gress census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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