Merck Family History
- Merck Name Meaning
- Dutch: from the personal name, a form of Mark 1. German and French: from a short form of a Germanic compound personal name with initial element mark ‘boundary’, ‘border area’, for example, Markwardt.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 64,579 Historical Documents with Merck on Ancestry
- 26,935 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,995 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,691 Military Records
- 1,238 Immigration Records
- 26,720 Member Trees
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Number of Merck families
 9 - 16  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Merck 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 1881 UK Census Data
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