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Please help me trace my surname origin - Gurklis


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silkrugThreads: 1
Joined: Mar 9, 10 ♀ 		Edited by: Moderator  Mar 9, 10, 19:19    #1
Please help me fing my surname's origin. My grandfather was born in Poland and moved to the uk after the war. There are many families in the usa with the surname GURKLIS but none in the uk. Can anyone shed any light on this as I am told it is Polish but it certainly does not sound like it, I wanted to trace my family tree but is proving very difficult.
many thanks
ZiemowitThreads: 10
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Joined: May 8, 09 ♂ 		 Mar 9, 10, 19:30    #2
It may be a surname of Lithuanian origin.
Mr GrunwaldThreads: 34
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Joined: Dec 16, 08 ♂ 		 Mar 9, 10, 22:17    #3
Ziemowit:
It may be a surname of Lithuanian origin.

yeah GURKLIS sound kinda Lithuanian
Polonius3Threads: 1,005
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Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂ 		 Mar 16, 10, 22:03    #4
Gurklis is ethncially not Polish, probably Lithuanian. There is only one person currently using that surname in Poland and lives in the Bydgoszcz area.
silkrug8  Jul 3, 11, 04:13    #5
I am a Gurklis as well my great grandfather was from Lithuania came to America in the 1800s and worked in the coal mines I am too trying to find my family history as for now tats all I know
Polonius3Threads: 1,005
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GURKLIS: Lithuanian for craw (a bird's gullet or crop -- where food is softened prior to digestion). Only 1 person with this surname in Poland.
MuddyShoes  Oct 21, 11, 02:54    #7
My husband's great-great grandmother was a Gurklis from Kowno (Kaunas) Lithuania.
Polonius3Threads: 1,005
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Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂ 		 Oct 21, 11, 05:10    #8
GURKLIS: This is the Lithuanian word for crop. There is (or was) only one person in Poland named Gurklis living in the Bydgoszcz area. That was according to a previous census, so unless that peson was a male of reproductive age, by now the name may be extinct in Poland.


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