When Georg Edward Wilhelm Ryno Benge was born on 16 June 1856, in Spandau, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany, his father, Heinrich Wilhelm Benge, was 26 and his mother, Friedrike Charlotte Amalie Auguste Gaede, was 32. He married Louise Weiss on 4 May 1883, in Werdohl, Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 12 May 1935, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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German: habitational name from a place called Bengen in Rhineland.
Hungarian: habitational name from a place in Baranya County called Benge.
English (Kent and Sussex): perhaps from an unattested Middle English personal name Benge.
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