Roker Family History
- Roker Name Meaning
- German (also Röker): of uncertain origin. In the north, it may be from a short form of a Germanic personal name from hrok ‘rook’, or alternatively from an agent derivative of Middle Low German rok ‘smoke’ and hence an occupational name for someone who smoked fish or meat or for a blacksmith or charcoal burner. In the east it could be an occupational name for a beekeeper, from Slavic roj ‘swarm of bees’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 32,076 Historical Documents with Roker on Ancestry
- 14,466 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 10,113 Census and Voter Lists
- 554 Military Records
- 1,228 Immigration Records
- 5,715 Member Trees
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Number of Roker families
 34 - 65  12 - 33 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Roker families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Roker 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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