Balke Family History
- Balke Name Meaning
- German: from Balke ‘timber’, ‘beam’; hence a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter. German: variant of Balk. Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead named Balke, from Old Norse balkr ‘beam’, used in the sense ‘ridge’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 66,581 Historical Documents with Balke on Ancestry
- 38,409 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,074 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,555 Military Records
- 2,639 Immigration Records
- 13,904 Member Trees
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Number of Balke families
 10 - 17  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Balke families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Balke census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Balke census records
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