Burk Family History
- Burk Name Meaning
- Swiss German: from an Alemannic short form of the personal name Burkhard (see Burkhart). German: habitational name from the common place names Burk and Burg. Northern English: variant of Birch.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 935,104 Historical Documents with Burk on Ancestry
- 275,049 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 188,148 Census and Voter Lists
- 33,001 Military Records
- 14,866 Immigration Records
- 424,040 Member Trees
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Number of Burk families
 85 - 167  29 - 84 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Burk families
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198 - 394 67 - 197 |
1 - 66 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Burk 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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