Bork Family History
- Bork Name Meaning
- Eastern German: habitational name from either of two places so named, in Pomerania and Lausitz, or from Borek in Upper Saxony; all are named with Slavic bor- ‘pine’, ‘conifer’. German: patronymic from a pet form of a Slavic personal name such as Boroslaw (see Boris). Dutch: shortened form of Van der Borck, a variant of Vandenburg. Danish: from a German variant of Borck.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 116,710 Historical Documents with Bork on Ancestry
- 66,410 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 15,952 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,040 Military Records
- 3,618 Immigration Records
- 25,690 Member Trees
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Number of Bork families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bork families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bork census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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