Wark Family History
Wark Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Northumberland): habitational name from Wark
on the Tweed river, which is named from Old English (ge)weorc
‘(earth)works’, ‘fortification’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wark
Name Distribution of Wark Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wark families
 44 - 85  15 - 43 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wark families
|
78 - 154 27 - 77 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wark census records
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Wark Family Origin
Wark Emigration Information (US)
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Wark Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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