Silk Family History
Silk Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a silk merchant, from
Middle English selk(e), silk(e) ‘silk’.English:
from a medieval personal name, a back-formation from Silkin
(see Sill).Irish (Galway): Anglicized form (part
translation) of Gaelic Ó Síoda (see Sheedy).Americanized form (translation) of German and Jewish
Seide or Seid.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Silk
Name Distribution of Silk Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Silk families
 141 - 279  48 - 140 |
 1 - 47  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Silk families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Silk census records
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Silk Family Origin
Silk Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Silk Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Silk census records
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Military Service by Silk
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