Robert Le Roy Turk

Brief Life History of Robert Le Roy

When Robert Le Roy Turk was born on 21 March 1912, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, his father, Lloyd Cecil Turk, was 26 and his mother, Anna Christina Anderson, was 26. He married Eleanor Lorraine Stevens on 9 May 1934, in Mason, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in San Francisco, California, United States in 1940 and Sausalito, Marin, California, United States for about 1 years. He died on 28 November 1997, in Rohnert Park, Sonoma, California, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Donner, Placer, California, United States.

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Robert Le Roy Turk
1912–1997
Eleanor Lorraine Stevens
1911–1989
Marriage: 9 May 1934
James Lloyd Turk
1943–2005

Sources (17)

  • Robert L Turk, "United States Census, 1950"
  • Turk, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
  • Robert L Turk, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"

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Name Meaning

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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