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Thomas Moss
New York, Land Records, 1630-1975

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Tabitha C Stevens
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John H Moss
New York, Land Records, 1630-1975

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George B Lewis
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Adelaide Moss
New York, Land Records, 1630-1975

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William Wilkening
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Theodore R Moss
New York, Land Records, 1630-1975

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Mina B Barrows

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Moss

 

English: topographic name from Middle English mos ‘moss, bog’ (Old English mos), for someone who lived at a boggy place, or a habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as Moss (Yorkshire), Mose in Quatford (Shropshire), and Moze (Essex).

English: variant of Moyse .

Irish (Ulster): adoption of the English name 1 by translation for Ó Maolmóna or Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmóna’, a personal name based on maol ‘servant, tonsured one, i.e. devotee’ + a second element assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland, peat bog’, in local English ‘moss’.

German: unexplained.

Americanized form of Moses or some other similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Moss is commonly found in the United States and two other countries.