Dock Family History
Dock Name Meaning
English: of uncertain derivation; possibly from Middle English
doke ‘duck’ (see Duck).Norwegian:
habitational name from a farm named Dokk, from Old Norse
d{o,}kk ‘hollow’, ‘depression’.Possibly an altered form of
German Docke, a metonymic occupational name for someone who
worked in the cloth trade, from Middle Low German dok
‘fabric’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dock
Name Distribution of Dock Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dock families
 28 - 54  10 - 27 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dock families
|
10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dock census records
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Dock Family Origin
Dock Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Dock Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Dock census records
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Military Service by Dock
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