Reek Family History
Reek Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a heap of
some kind, from Middle English reke ‘stack’, ‘heap’.German: from Radeke, a pet form of a Germanic personal name
formed with rad ‘advice’, ‘counsel’.Altered spelling of
German Reeck.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Reek Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Reek families
 11 - 20  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Reek families
|
30 - 57 11 - 29 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Reek census records
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Reek Family Origin
Reek Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Reek
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Reek Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Reek census records
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Reek Civil War Service Records
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