Barker Family History
- Barker Name Meaning
- English: occupational name for a tanner of leather, from Middle English bark(en) ‘to tan’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent. English: occupational name for a shepherd, Anglo-Norman French bercher (Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’, genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name. Altered spelling of German Barger or Berger.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 7,149,792 Historical Documents with Barker on Ancestry
- 2,012,734 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,307,878 Census and Voter Lists
- 157,957 Military Records
- 100,404 Immigration Records
- 3,570,819 Member Trees
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Number of Barker families
 5,016 - 10,030  1,673 - 5,015 |
 1 - 1,672  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Barker families
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94 - 186 32 - 93 |
1 - 31 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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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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