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Hello I am trying to find out what Native American tribe my name originated from, my name is Markerreese which means mark the trail and I was named after my grandmother and have no other information on this name.
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Can you help out a little more, e.g., by saying where your grandmother was born and when?
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Hello, I don't have any information on her other than she lived in Mississippi. Thank YOU
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Some Choctaw and a very few Natchez remained after the removals of the 1830s. From what information I can find it doesn't appear to be a Choctaw name, and may be a derivative of American French or Creole (Mississippi was New France just like Louisiana). The correlation in form between Markareese and "Mark the trail" is too unlikely unless the meaning is derived from the name, or there is an obscure American French origin (the lack of a suitable word similar to reese or eese in French dictionaries is inconclusive - American French has a different, sparsely documented vocabulary). On the other hand it may have originally been a normal European name like Marguerite. To search the Dawes lists though you'll need a surname, and your grandmother may probably have been born after this census. Almost all will have European names.
This message was edited 4/3/2020, 9:33 AM
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