Defrain Family History
- Defrain Name Meaning
- French: variant, with the preposition de ‘from’, of the habitational name Frain. Altered spelling of French Dufresne.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,976 Historical Documents with Defrain on Ancestry
- 2,521 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,444 Census and Voter Lists
- 381 Military Records
- 109 Immigration Records
- 5,521 Member Trees
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Number of Defrain families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Defrain census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Defrain census records
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