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Re: Last Name
I have only found Sengo. In italy there is one family in Naples, but Sengo is mainly Brazilian or Portuguese.
It existed in Germany in XIXth century, but now impossibile to find it.
However in Germany you could find SENGE. Probably Sengo was a variant of it.
In Australia I have noticed a certain John Sengo.

Difficult to find. In Italy also DE SENGI, extremely rare.
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As a German name SENGE(R) can have various derivations:

1. Middle High German "senge" ("ripe for cutting") referring to the corn; this would be a name for a farmer

2. German "sengen" ("burn") for someone clearing a forest by burning

3. Middle High German "senger" ("singer", High German "Sänger" with an A umlaut)

Andy ;—)
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