Brinkmeyer Family History
- Brinkmeyer Name Meaning
- North German: distinguishing name for a tenant farmer (see Meyer) whose farm was on the edge of low-lying grazing land, Middle Low German brinc (see Brink).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 20,640 Historical Documents with Brinkmeyer on Ancestry
- 8,966 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,482 Census and Voter Lists
- 759 Military Records
- 406 Immigration Records
- 6,027 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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