Monk Family History
Monk Name Meaning
English: nickname for someone of monkish habits or appearance,
or an occupational name for a servant employed at a monastery, from
Middle English munk, monk ‘monk’ (Old English
munuc, munec, from Late Latin monachus, Greek
monakhos ‘solitary’, a derivative of monos ‘alone’).North German (Mönk) and Dutch: equivalent of 1,
from Middle Low German monik, Middle Dutch moni(n)c,
mun(i)c.Irish: translation of Gaelic Ó
Muineaog (see Minogue) or Ó Manacháin (see
Monahan).Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational
name for a miller or flour merchant, from Polish maka
‘flour’, ‘meal’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Monk
Name Distribution of Monk Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Monk families
 598 - 1,193  200 - 597 |
 1 - 199  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Monk families
|
31 - 59 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Monk census records
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Monk Family Origin
Monk Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Monk Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Monk census records
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Military Service by Monk
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