Boehmke Family History
- Boehmke Name Meaning
- North German (Böhmke): from a diminutive of Middle Low German bom, which in addition to meaning ‘tree’ was also used to denote a beam or joist, so that the name may have been either topographical or a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 7,037 Historical Documents with Boehmke on Ancestry
- 3,381 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,001 Census and Voter Lists
- 257 Military Records
- 221 Immigration Records
- 2,177 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Boehmke census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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