Defoe Family History
- Defoe Name Meaning
- Of uncertain origin; probably an Anglicized form of a French Huguenot name.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 41,796 Historical Documents with Defoe on Ancestry
- 13,206 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,805 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,359 Military Records
- 654 Immigration Records
- 17,772 Member Trees
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Number of Defoe families
 7 - 12  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Defoe families
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23 - 44 8 - 22 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Defoe census records
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Defoe census records
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