Roark Family History
- Roark Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced variant spelling of O’Rourke.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 357,770 Historical Documents with Roark on Ancestry
- 95,486 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 39,925 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,703 Military Records
- 1,837 Immigration Records
- 208,819 Member Trees
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Number of Roark families
 11 - 20  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Roark families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Roark 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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You can find out when most of the Roark families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Roark census records
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