When Johannes Bressie was born in 1727, in Linlithgo, Livingston, Columbia, New York, United States, his father, Wiensan Vincent Bresee, was 32 and his mother, Elsje Scism, was 29. He married Cornelia Witbeck on 17 April 1749, in Germantown, Columbia, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died about 1758, at the age of 32.
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Italian:
variant of Bresci, itself a variant of Brescia .
habitational name from Bresso in Milan province,showing the same regularization of form, characteristic of northernItaly.
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