O'rourke Family History
O'rourke Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruairc ‘descendant of
Ruarc’, Old Gaelic Ruadhrac, a personal name from Norse
Hrothrekr (see Roderick). This is the name of chieftain
family in counties Leitrim and Cavan.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of O'rourke Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of O'rourke families
 3 - 2  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of O'rourke families
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51 - 99 18 - 50 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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O'rourke Family Origin
O'rourke Emigration Information (US)
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O'rourke Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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