Meese Family History
- Meese Name Meaning
- English: variant spelling of Meece. German and Dutch: nickname from the bird name mees ‘titmouse’, or a metonymic occupational name for a bird-catcher. Dutch: possibly a metonymic occupational name for a basketweaver, from Middle Dutch mese ‘(fish) basket’. Dutch: patronymic from a short form of the personal name Bartolomeus.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 125,520 Historical Documents with Meese on Ancestry
- 33,932 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 15,534 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,946 Military Records
- 1,228 Immigration Records
- 71,880 Member Trees
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Number of Meese families
 53 - 104  18 - 52 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Meese families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Meese 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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