When Doekele Dick Tenckinck was born on 19 July 1853, in Franekeradeel, Friesland, Netherlands, his father, Hendrickus Gerhardus Tenckinck, was 36 and his mother, Saapke Johannes Osinga, was 35. He married Geertje Gertrude Riemersma on 17 April 1875, in Holland, Ottawa, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to United States in 1871. He died on 21 January 1934, in Olive Township, Ottawa, Michigan, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Pilgrim Home Cemetery, Holland, Ottawa, Michigan, United States.
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Short form of Richard . The alteration of the initial consonant is supposed to result from the difficulty that English speakers in the Middle Ages had in pronouncing the trilled Norman r-.
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