Last name HISTORY HELP ??

Question

im trying to do a project on my last name !! hmmm i dunno anything about it ...

My last name is Bark any help ?!?

Answer 1

Bark Name Meaning and History

1.English: from Middle English "bark" ‘bark’ (Old Norse "borkr"), hence a metonymic occupation name for a tanner. See also Barker.

2.North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from "berke" ‘birch’, or alternatively for someone who lived on a mountain (see Barg).

3.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of Barak

Barker :1.English: occupational name for a tanner of leather, from Middle English "bark(en)" ‘"to tan"’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.

2.English: occupational name for a shepherd, Anglo-Norman French "bercher" (Late Latin "berbicarius", from "berbex" ‘ram’, genitive "berbicis"). With the change of -"ar"- to -"er"- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name.

Altered spelling of German "Barger" or "Berger".

www.familysearch.org has the name Bark in the US (Tex., Ariz., NY, Mass., Alabama, Ark., Tenn., Missouri, GA, NC, Iowa, PA, Ind., & Ohio) and overseas in S. Russia, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Wales, England, China, Canada, Germany, S. Africa, Korea, Barbados (Caribbean), Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Estonia USSR, Czechoslovakia, and Finland. Various spellings include these: BURKE, BURK, BORK , BOURKE, BIRKE , BJERK (Norway), BARKS , BARKES , BARGE , BARGH , BARQUE , BAARD, BARKAS, BAURGH, DE BARK, BARKI, BARCK, BAARK,  BARG, BARGON, VON BARGEN, BAERGEN , VAN BARGEN , BAREK , BARCKE, BARQUES, VON BORCKE, and BOURQUE.  The earliest date I saw was for a Miss Bark, born in Korea in 1266.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Bark is from the Middle English "barken", which means "to tan", as in leather tanning. The bark of the oak tree having been used as a tanning agent.

Answer 4

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