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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered form of Dutch Ti(e)tsoort; unexplained.
  • A family of this name from Schenectady, NY, moved to Port Jervis, NY on the Delaware River after the massacre during Leisler’s Rebellion of Schenectady in 1690.

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