133 Global TROKE Family Members

TROKE Family History

Recorded as Troak, Troake, and Troke, this is an English surname It is a good example of how the changing dialects over the centuries have created their own variants of surnames. The original derivation is from the Old French word "trique", a metonymic for a conjuror or magician or possibly a jester. It was a word introduced by the Norman-French at the famous invasion of 1066, when for the following three centuries French was the official language of England and Scotland. The very first recording in any form is that of Adam le Trikur, in the Pipe Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield, in Yorkshire, in 1275.