Harker (surname)


Harker is an English surname.
Some genealogical records show that the origin of Harker comes from the North-West regions of England- North of the Lake District. Speculation is that Harker is the result of the combination of Romanized hyphenation of the surnames Hart or Hare and Kerr. It is also assumed that the Harker family were romanized subjects who lived on both sides of Hadrian's Wall in that area.
Harkers can be found mostly in Northern England. In the United States, there are concentrations of Harkers living in communities across the Rocky Mountains from Mexico to Canada. They are mostly descendants from Mormon Pioneers which dispersed from Cove Fort, Utah to settle the western frontier as called and assigned by Mormon leaders in the late 1800s.

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