Cognome
Defesta
The strongest concentration of Defesta in US arrival records points to Calabria, with 1 of 1 arrivals (100 percent) originating there.
1
US arrivals
1830 to 1912
1
Comuni of
origin
1
Regioni
represented
0
Notable on
Wikipedia
Top regione
Calabria
1 of 1
100 percent of arrivals
Varianti grafiche
Spelling variants worth checking
- The spelling you know may not be the one in the records. For example, a family remembers Mansini, but the records read Mancini.
- If your spelling does not appear, a close variant in the list below may be the same family.
Desta
1 US arrivals
Deresta
1 US arrivals
De resta
2 US arrivals
De cesta
1 US arrivals
Festa
255 US arrivals
Defeo
75 US arrivals
Defea
2 US arrivals
Defer
2 US arrivals
Variants are surfaced from the surname index, not from per-name research. None of these is guaranteed to be the same family as Defesta.
Origini per comune
Arrival records by comune
Each row is a comune (municipality) where at least one passenger named Defesta was recorded between 1830 and 1912.
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