The Shirk surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 7,448 people carried this name — #4,754 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 39,700 people counted. That is up 15% from 6,487 in 2000.

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In print

Shirk in American newspapers,
1906–1926.

Newspaper page from The Wenatchee Daily World carrying the name Shirk
The Wenatchee Daily World 1906-01-03
Newspaper page from The Washington Daily News carrying the name Shirk
The Washington Daily News 1926-04-13

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Shirk in Australian newspapers,
1830s–1960s.

346 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Shirk. The most, 112, date from the 1920s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Victoria, at 1.3 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 115
Victoria 89
Queensland 82
Western Australia 24
South Australia 21
Tasmania 12
ACT (Canberra) 1
Northern Territory 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Shirk.

Who carried it

People named Shirk,
with a public archive behind them.

  • James Shirk
    James Shirk 1832–1873 · military officer
  • Elbert Hamilton Shirk 1818–1886
  • Milton Edward Shirk 1849–1903
  • Mary Alice Shirk 1853–1931
  • Adam Shirk 1880–1931 · writer
  • Lilly Cecelia Shirk Pratt 1894–1964

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Shirk,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States349 records

349 records of the Shirk name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 218
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 61
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 56
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 9
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 4
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record David W. Shirk

    Born 1901 in Pennsylvania. Enlisted 1942 at Philadelphia; cook from Philadelphia County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1976, buried at Long Island National Cemetery, New York.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Steven Glen Shirk

    Born 1947; from Auburn, Indiana. U.S. Army, radio operator; died in an accident 1968 in Quang Tri, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Roy Lester Shirk

    U.S. Army veteran of World War I. Born 1895, died 1953; buried at Los Angeles National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 349 records for Shirk in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

Canada7 records

7 records of the Shirk name in Canada
  • City of Waterloo (Ontario) cemetery records 4
  • Nova Scotia Archives name indexes 3
  1. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Theresa Shirk

    Died 1963 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.
  2. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Example: Canadian cemetery
    Burial record Anne Shirk

    Buried in 1990 at Parkview Cemetery, Waterloo, Ontario.

    Contains information provided by the City of Waterloo under licence
  3. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Lawrence Shirk

    Married 1863 in Digby, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.

Showing 3 of 7 records for Shirk in Canada.

Counts: Contains information provided by the City of Waterloo under licence · Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0); Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0); Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain).

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