Yerki is a village in Zvenigorodka District, Ukraine.  It is 125km (25 walking hours) from Kanev.  Could the Yaroker family name mean, ‘that fellow from Yerki‘?

Beiber’s surname dictionary uses the Duma Voter List as a source.  The 1906 Duma List lists three Yaroker voters in Kanev.  There are many Yarokers in Kanev.  The citation of Kherson is interesting and may come from a census.  This deserves further investigation.

Cyrillic Spelling: Ярокер

The Yaroker family name is spelled Ярокер in Russian and Ярокеръ in the old style. In the 1906 Duma voter list for Kanev, there were three Yaroker voters.

1906 Duma Election Yaroker Residents from Kanev Permitted to Vote

Hebrew Spelling: ירוקר

The Yaroker name is spelled in Hebrew as: ירוקר. “Yarok”, the root of the name, is spelled יָר֫ק which means greenery, vegetable, verdu.  Perhaps the Yaroker family name is derived from forestry or farming activities.

Phonetics

The Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex code are:

• 195900 197590, for Hebrew name ירוקר
• 195900, for ‘Yaroker’
• 195900 495900, for ‘Jaroker’

Jurewicz in 1881

1) Jurewicz is a small town in the former province of Minsk, near the Rechitsa district.  The river Pripyat runs on the left bank with tributaries Brahin and Chojnik flowing to Mozyr.  Lithuanian Jesuits settled in the area in 1726 and built a magnificent temple.  Jesuits were moved to Bernardine.  A Catholic parish was then established in 1866 belonging to the Mozyr-Rechitsa deans with a chapel in Hliniszczu.  The village has about 140 houses, 900 inhabitants, a police station and a rural school.  The municipality is comprised of 18 rural areas, 43 villages and has 2,335 peasants.  Jurewicz is beautiful, an oasis amount the marshes of Rechitsa.  Stanislaus August [gave privileges?] to the town in 1778.  Jesuit historian Rostowski does not mention the city although it is important to his order.

2) Jurewicz is a small farm village in the Poleska municipality. [Shumen State] north of the city Ihumonia.  In the fifteenth century, the village belonged to the Kieżgajłłów family. Stanislaw Kieźgajłło in 1447 gave the property to Vilnius bishops.  After 1795, Empress Catherine II [received/took?] several Szewiczowi manors. The Jurewicz municipality consists of 7 townships, 42 villages and has ?? 1960. There is a parish church, school and country [mail?]. The Szewiczów ownership comprises 30000 mr of sandy soil farmland.

3) Jurewicz is found in the Ihumenskim area north of Ihumenia town on the road. It was owned by the former bishops of Vilnius and now owned by the Szewicza officer [??].

4) Jurewicz community numbers 1,137 souls.

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This translation from Polish to English was made by Jon Jaroker, who does not read Polish, using a combination of machine character recognition, machine language translation and personal interpretation.  Improvements to the translation are requested and may be submitted using the contact form.

Reference

• Resources > Geographical Dictionary of the Polish Kingdom
• http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_III/630

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