Risk Family History
Risk Name Meaning
Scottish: perhaps, as Black suggests, from Gaelic riasg
‘morass with sedge’, applied generally as a topographic name or
specifically to someone who lived by the Risk of Drymen.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Risk Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Risk families
 23 - 43  8 - 22 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Risk families
|
12 - 22 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Risk families
|
47 - 92 16 - 46 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Risk census records
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Risk Family Origin
Risk Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Risk
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Risk Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Risk census records
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Risk Civil War Service Records
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