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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : habitational name for someone from the German town of Deusen, north of Dortmund, in North Rhine-Westphalia near the Dutch border.
  • This name is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland (Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century.

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