Silk Family History
- Silk Name Meaning
- English: metonymic occupational name for a silk merchant, from Middle English selk(e), silk(e) ‘silk’. English: from a medieval personal name, a back-formation from Silkin (see Sill). Irish (Galway): Anglicized form (part translation) of Gaelic Ó Síoda (see Sheedy). Americanized form (translation) of German and Jewish Seide or Seid.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 249,934 Historical Documents with Silk on Ancestry
- 83,179 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 58,980 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,687 Military Records
- 7,973 Immigration Records
- 92,115 Member Trees
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Number of Silk families
 48 - 94  17 - 47 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Silk families
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141 - 279 48 - 140 |
1 - 47 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Silk families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Silk census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Silk census records
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Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
- All Silk
- 55
- Confederate
- 11
- Union
- 44
from the Civil War Service Records
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