Rook Family History
- Rook Name Meaning
- English: nickname from the bird (Old English hroc), most likely given to a person with very dark hair or a dark complexion or to someone with a raucous voice. English: some early examples, such as Robert of ye Rook (London 1318) and Henry del Rook (Staffordshire 1332), point clearly to a local name of some kind. The first of these could be from a house sign, the second may be a variant of Rock 1. German: from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with hrok, of uncertain origin; perhaps a cognate of 1 or from Middle High German rohen ‘to cry or yell (in battle)’ or Old High German ruoh ‘intent’. Perhaps an altered spelling of German Ruck.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 306,230 Historical Documents with Rook on Ancestry
- 118,629 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 70,556 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,007 Military Records
- 4,992 Immigration Records
- 103,046 Member Trees
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Number of Rook families
 144 - 285  49 - 143 |
 1 - 48  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rook families
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17 - 32 6 - 16 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Rook census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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