Släkthistoria för Yarker
Yarker Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps for a shoemaker according to Reaney from an unrecorded Middle English *yarker derived from Middle English yarken ‘to draw stitches tight to twitch as a shoemaker in sewing’ (about 1430 in OED ). Redmonds suggests that the northern dales surname is a variant of Harker with a prosthetic Y-.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
