Hilke Family History
- Hilke Name Meaning
- North German, Frisian, and Dutch: usually from a pet form of Hildegund, a Germanic female name composed of the elements hild ‘strife’ + gund ‘battle’. The Dutch surname is sometimes derived from a masculine personal name such as Hildebrand or Hilger.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 19,193 Historical Documents with Hilke on Ancestry
- 9,531 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,088 Census and Voter Lists
- 574 Military Records
- 861 Immigration Records
- 5,139 Member Trees
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Number of Hilke families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hilke 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
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