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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch (de Weese) : descriptive epithet for an orphan, Middle Low German we(e)se.
  • North German : topographic name from Middle Low German wese (modern German Wiese) ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’.

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