Volk Family History
Volk Name Meaning
German: from a medieval personal name, a short form of various
Germanic personal names with the first element folk
‘people’. Compare Foulkes.Czech: variant of the
personal name Volek.Slovenian: nickname from
volk ‘wolf’.Ukrainian: Russianized form of Ukrainian
Vovk, a nickname meaning ‘wolf’.Jewish (western
Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Volk ‘people’.English: variant of Foulks.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Volk
Name Distribution of Volk Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Volk families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Volk families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Volk census records
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Volk Family Origin
Volk Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Volk Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Volk census records
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Military Service by Volk
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