Oss Family History
- Oss Name Meaning
- North German: from Low German oss ‘ox’, hence a nickname for a farmer or a stupid person, or in some cases a habitational name for someone living at a house or inn distinguished by the sign of an ox. South German (especially southern Bavaria (Allgäu)): from a short form of the personal name Oswald. Dutch (van Oss): habitational name from Oss in North Brabant. Probably an Americanized form of any of a number of common Norwegian habitational names from farmsteads named with Old Norse áss ‘hill’, ‘ridge’ (see Aas).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 27,861 Historical Documents with Oss on Ancestry
- 14,073 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,170 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,381 Military Records
- 1,247 Immigration Records
- 4,990 Member Trees
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Number of Oss families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Oss 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
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