Leese Family History
- Leese Name Meaning
- Variant spelling of English and Scottish Lees. German: habitational name from a place so named near Hannover.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 142,322 Historical Documents with Leese on Ancestry
- 61,959 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 28,450 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,141 Military Records
- 3,853 Immigration Records
- 43,919 Member Trees
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Number of Leese families
 508 - 1,014  170 - 507 |
 1 - 169  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Leese families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Leese 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
Leese census records
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