Bark Family History
- Bark Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English bark ‘bark’ (Old Norse borkr), hence a metonymic occupation name for a tanner. See also Barker. North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from berke ‘birch’, or alternatively for someone who lived on a mountain (see Barg). Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of Barak.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 136,610 Historical Documents with Bark on Ancestry
- 63,635 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 27,886 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,898 Military Records
- 6,303 Immigration Records
- 34,888 Member Trees
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Number of Bark families
 52 - 101  18 - 51 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bark families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bark census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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