O'rourke Family History
- O'rourke Name Meaning
- Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruairc ‘descendant of Ruarc’, Old Gaelic Ruadhrac, a personal name from Norse Hrothrekr (see Roderick). This is the name of chieftain family in counties Leitrim and Cavan.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 449,616 Historical Documents with O'rourke on Ancestry
- 177,374 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 114,278 Census and Voter Lists
- 25,209 Military Records
- 23,293 Immigration Records
- 109,462 Member Trees
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Number of O'rourke families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
O'rourke 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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