Horch Family History
- Horch Name Meaning
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): origin uncertain; perhaps a habitational name from Horchheim in the Rhineland, named from Middle High German hork, horec ‘dirt’ + heim ‘home’, ‘dwelling place’. German: topographic name for someone who lived in a swampy place, from Middle High German hor ‘mire’, ‘mud’. German: nickname for an eavesdropper, from Middle High German horchen ‘to listen’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 36,303 Historical Documents with Horch on Ancestry
- 25,332 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,394 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,145 Military Records
- 893 Immigration Records
- 5,539 Member Trees
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Number of Horch families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Horch 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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