Cork Family History
Cork Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a supplier of red or
purple dye or for a dyer of cloth, Middle English cork (of
Celtic origin; compare Corkery).
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cork
Name Distribution of Cork Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cork families
 285 - 567  96 - 284 |
 1 - 95  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cork families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cork census records
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Cork Family Origin
Cork Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cork Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cork census records
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Military Service by Cork
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