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ANDRESS Family History

This interesting surname, with variant spellings Andre, Andrea, Andree, Andrey, Andress, Andriss, Andri and Anders, is derived from the personal name Andrew, itself coming from the Greek given name "Andreas", a derivative of "anderios" meaning "manly". The modern Andre often appears as Andre with an acute over the final e, sometimes an introduction from France, though one suspects that the accent is not always original. However, this form may be French, and introduced by some of the thousands of French Huguenots who fled to England in the mid to late 17th Century to escape religious persecution on the Continent, especially after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by King Louis X1V in 1685.