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Shank Name Meaning
Americanized spelling of Schank.Northern
English and Scottish: variant of Shanks.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Shank
Name Distribution of Shank Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shank families
 287 - 571  96 - 286 |
 1 - 95  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Shank families
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15 - 27 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shank families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shank census records
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Shank Family Origin
Shank Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Shank
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Shank Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Shank census records
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Shank Civil War Service Records
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