Anker Family History
- Anker Name Meaning
- German: from Middle High German anker ‘anchor’, applied either as an occupational name for a smith who made ships’ anchors or as a habitational name from a house identified by an anchor. English: from the Old French personal name Anchier (see Angier). Norwegian and Swedish: probably originally a Swedish soldier’s name meaning ‘anchor’. This is the name of a powerful and influential Norwegian family, who came to Christiana (Oslo) from Sweden in 1668. Danish: from a personal name, of which the first element means ‘eagle’ and the second (probably) ‘violent’. Americanized form of northern French Anquier, from a personal name of Germanic origin (see Angier).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 97,041 Historical Documents with Anker on Ancestry
- 46,369 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 14,966 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,820 Military Records
- 3,510 Immigration Records
- 28,376 Member Trees
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Number of Anker families
 33 - 63  12 - 32 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Anker families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Anker census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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