Bockrath Family History
- Bockrath Name Meaning
- North German: probably a topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing in a beech wood, from Middle Low German boke ‘beech’ + rath ‘clearing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 7,277 Historical Documents with Bockrath on Ancestry
- 2,188 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,096 Census and Voter Lists
- 292 Military Records
- 54 Immigration Records
- 3,647 Member Trees
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Number of Bockrath families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bockrath census records
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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