Re: DENCH FAMILY UK
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Re: DENCH FAMILY UK
Gail Koppanyi 2/08/03
You can see it happening on the IGI - lots of DUNCHs in Ely, Stuntney, Chatteris and Littleport at the start of the 18th Century, and they've all disappeared by the end of it, but there are plenty of DENCHs - and in individual families as well, a DUNCH gets married and he and his wife have a couple of children, and then DENCHs with the same names have some, and then maybe back to DUNCH again.
I haven't checked any of the original Parish Registers, so maybe I've missed something, but it certainly seems to be what happened.