Butenhoff Family History
- Butenhoff Name Meaning
- North German: topographic name for someone who lived on an outlying farm, from Low German buten ‘outside’ + hof ‘farmstead’, ‘manor farm’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 10,811 Historical Documents with Butenhoff on Ancestry
- 3,697 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,156 Census and Voter Lists
- 216 Military Records
- 166 Immigration Records
- 5,576 Member Trees
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Number of Butenhoff families
 13 - 24  5 - 12 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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