Rocker Family History
- Rocker Name Meaning
- English: occupational name for a spinner or a maker of distaffs, from an agent derivative of Middle English rok ‘distaff’ (see Rock). German: from a Germanic personal name based on hrod ‘renown’. habitational name from a farm named Rokken in Pustertal, south Tyrol (Italy). German (Röcker): from a topographic name or a place name Röcke (formerly Roke) near Bückeburg, Lower Saxony.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 63,633 Historical Documents with Rocker on Ancestry
- 35,888 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 10,378 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,611 Military Records
- 1,983 Immigration Records
- 12,773 Member Trees
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Number of Rocker families
 17 - 31  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rocker 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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