Turco Family History
- Turco Name Meaning
- Italian: ethnic name for a Turk, Italian Turco, or a nickname from the same word in the sense of a non-Christian or, following the medieval ethnic stereotype, a cruel, ferocious, or short-tempered person. See also Turk. This name may also be of Greek origin, from Tourko-, Tourkos ‘Turk’. It is often found combined with a personal name to form a Greek surname, for example Tourkantonis ‘Turkish Anthony’ (i.e. ‘Anthony the Muslim’, ‘Anthony originally from Ottoman Turkey rather than the Greek state’, or ‘Anthony the irascible’), Tourkogeorgis ‘Turkish George’, Tourkomanolis ‘Turkish Emmanuel’, etc.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 28,772 Historical Documents with Turco on Ancestry
- 14,295 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,433 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,615 Military Records
- 3,356 Immigration Records
- 5,073 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Turco census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Turco census records
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