Manasse Family History
- Manasse Name Meaning
- French: from the Biblical Hebrew personal name Manasseh, from nashah ‘make to forget’. This was the name of Joseph’s elder son, brother of Ephraim, so named in the hope that Joseph’s father Jacob might begin to forget the sorrows of the past.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,574 Historical Documents with Manasse on Ancestry
- 4,594 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,711 Census and Voter Lists
- 384 Military Records
- 1,478 Immigration Records
- 1,407 Member Trees
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Number of Manasse families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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