Burk Family History
Burk Name Meaning
Swiss German: from an Alemannic short form of the personal name
Burkhard (see Burkhart).German: habitational name
from the common place names Burk and Burg.Northern English:
variant of Birch.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Burk Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Burk families
 214 - 425  72 - 213 |
 1 - 71  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Burk families
|
85 - 167 29 - 84 |
1 - 28 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Burk families
|
21 - 39 8 - 20 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Burk census records
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Burk Family Origin
Burk Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Burk
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Burk Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Burk census records
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Burk Civil War Service Records
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