Kerker Family History
- Kerker Name Meaning
- South German: variant of Kercher (see Karcher), but also from the dialect word Kerker ‘prison’ (Latin carcer), hence a metonymic occupational name for a prison warder or possibly a topographic name. North German: topographic name for someone who lived near a church, from Low German kerke ‘church’, or possibly an occupational name from a reduced form of Low German Kerkener ‘sexton’. Sorbian topographic name for someone living near bushes, from Sorbian kerk ‘bush’, ‘undergrowth’. Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a dungeon, Dutch kerker.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 26,321 Historical Documents with Kerker on Ancestry
- 9,900 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,536 Census and Voter Lists
- 745 Military Records
- 760 Immigration Records
- 10,380 Member Trees
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Number of Kerker families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kerker census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- Confederate
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