When Jacoba Turk was born on 1 May 1801, in Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States, her father, Benjamin Turk Jr., was 35 and her mother, Jenneke Burhans, was 33. She married Levi Molyneaux in Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Shandaken, Shandaken, Ulster, New York, United States in 1850 and Township of Sandstone, Jackson, Michigan, United States in 1860. She died on 29 July 1870, in Michigan, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Cement City Cemetery, Township of Columbia, Jackson, Michigan, United States.
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English (mainly Gloucestershire) and Dutch; German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Türk): from Middle English, Old French turc, Middle High and Low German Turc ‘Turk’, all ultimately from Turkish Türk. In theory this could be an ethnic name but, both in England and northwest Europe, it is generally a nickname for a man with black hair and a swarthy complexion or a cruel, rowdy, or unruly man. The English surname may also be from a medieval personal name, a back-formation from Turkel , misanalyzed as containing the Old French diminutive suffix -el. The Dutch and German surname also represents a topographic or habitational name referring to a house name derived from the use of a picture of a Turk as a house sign. It is also found as a nickname for someone who had taken part in the wars against the Turks. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Turck and Tuerk .
Slovenian (also Türk) and Croatian: nickname for a refugee from the Turks in the 15th and 16th centuries, or e.g. for someone who behaved or looked like a Turk, from an old vernacular spelling of the Slovenian and dialectal Croatian ethnic name Turek ‘Turk’. Refugees were not ethnic Turks, but Croats and Serbs from ‘Turkey’, i.e. the Ottoman Empire, which included whole Bosnia and parts of Croatia. The Slovenian surname may in some cases also be a nickname from any of various plants named tur(e)k. Compare Turck , Turek , and Tuerk .
Turkish (Türk): ethnic or ornamental name from Türk ‘Turk’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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