Cornelisse History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Netherlands

The surname Cornelisse comes from the personal name Cornelis, which is a form of the Latin Cornelius. It was the name of several early Popes, one of whom became Saint Cornelius. The cult center of Saint Cornelius was the pilgrimage town of Cornelimünster, near Aachen in the Lower Rhineland of Germany, near the Dutch border.

Early Origins of the Cornelisse family

The surname Cornelisse was first found in the Lower Rhineland of Germany, where it spread to the Netherlands.

Early History of the Cornelisse family

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Cornelisse Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Cornelius, Cornelis, Cornelissen, Nelissen, Nellessen, Nellsen, Corneljes, Neljes and many more.

Early Notables of the Cornelisse family

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Cornelisse Ranking

In Netherlands, the name Cornelisse is the 718^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,615 people with that name. 1

Cornelisse migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Cornelisse Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Anna Cornelisse, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1803 2

Citations +

"Most Common Last Names in Netherlands." Forebears, https://forebears.io/netherlands/surnames
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)