Dehnke Family History
- Dehnke Name Meaning
- North German: from a pet form of Denhard, a variant of the personal name Degenhar(d)t (see Degenhardt).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 7,191 Historical Documents with Dehnke on Ancestry
- 3,348 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 685 Census and Voter Lists
- 199 Military Records
- 222 Immigration Records
- 2,737 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Dehnke census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Dehnke census records
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