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ker Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: variant of Carr.
  2. Hungarian (Kér): one of the eight ancient Hungarian tribal names from the Magyar conquest of the Carpathian basin. The Kér tribe, led by a chief called Vata settled in what is now known as Békés county, but King Steven I resettled the tribe in royal estates, far away from their original residence. Thus the 42 villages named after the Kér tribe are scattered around in Hungary.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The ker name in History

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Distribution of ker Families in the US in 1920
Number of ker families
 9-16
 4-8		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 22 - Messages: 52
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Kers in Scotland johnnie walker 8
Henry Ker m Margaret Munro gauths 0
james ker rojenny 0
David Ker and David Corbin Ker E. W. Prichard 1
John Ker of Portsburgh, Edinburgh Rosneath 0
Caroline Ker bbelvin189 0
John W Kerr debra10426 0
Seeking James Ker born abt 1811 Annan Dumfries Scotland orawiz 1
Ker Cousins jcarrgensearch 0
Irish Ker/Kerr's in Scotland. Hilary 0
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