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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German (Müsselmann) : probably an occupational name for a woodman, from Middle High German müsel ‘log’ + man ‘man’.
  • Christian Musselmann (1665–1734) was a Mennonite who came to PA from Lauperswil, Berne, Switzerland, at the beginning of the 18th century.

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