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Weese Name Meaning and History
German and Dutch (de Weese): descriptive epithet for an orphan, Middle Low German we(e)se.
North German: topographic name from Middle Low German wese (modern German Wiese) ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’.

www.familysearch.org has listings in Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, S. Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, N. Carolina, Missouri,New York, New Hampshire, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and the countries of
Switzerland, Netherlands, England, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, and Indonesia.
Varied spellings include: WISE ( a LOT of these are from Alabama), WIESE, WISSE , WYSS, DE WEESE, WEISS, WEISE,WEIS, WAIS, WYSE , WICE , andWEASE .
Some early listings include:
1. Abraham WYSS - Birth/Christening: Abt 1649 Of Hessighofen, Bern, Switzerland.
2.Isack Adriaensz De Weese -- Death: Before 1654 , , Indonesia
3.ABIGAIL WISE--born 1607 in England,and Marriage: About 1634,England .
4. ABIGAILE WISE--b. 1604 in Saint Stephens, Saint Albans, Hertford, England
5. Adrian (or Adriaen ) Heyndricks De Weese--b. 1595, Netherlands
6. Anna Weiss--b.1522 in Switzerland




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German.

Google "origin name weese"

The recorded spelling variations of Weese include Weise, Weis, Weiser, Wise and others.

First found in Bavaria, where the name gained a significant reputation for its contribution to the emerging medieval society.

Start with understanding that how your name is NOW SPELLED is, in ALL probability, NOT the original spelling. This is most often an issue with persons in the US, who have ancestors who came from other areas, most often from places in Eastern Europe (to put it broadly). When persons with difficult names came to the US, it often happened that they themselves were not literate, and (one way or another), an "easier" version developed. I don't know that you are actually tracing your ancestry.. if you were, you would run into real problems by not looking for the alternates or originals.
houseofnames is a dirty word, in my book, but I would agree in this case, that your name is a variation, and Wiese is almost certain to be the earlier spelling.
The PROVABLE way to confirm this, is with researching your own ancestry back to the person who immigrated. I'll wager 500 pts that you would find out that he (has to be a male, that's how names come down) came from Germany. There may not be any provable way to determine exactly where in Germany, since persons with the same name do not always trace back to the same ancient ancestor.
Don't bang your head on a brick wall, by insisting that there never was another spelling. It just doesn't work that way.