Last name: MORRISSEY
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MORRISSEY : This last name is indexed 34,075 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MORRISSEY : Irish: from Ó Muirgheasa ‘descendant of Muirgheas’ a personal name meaning ‘sea valour’. However according to MacLysaght this surname is also derived from the Norman name de Marisco.
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