Släkthistoria för Flucker
Flucker Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps a derivative of Middle English fluke Older Scots fluke flowke (Old English flōc) ‘flat fish’ (especially the flounder) + -er denoting a fisherman specialising in the catching of flat fish. Black notes that this was ‘an old surname in Fife’ and ‘a not uncommon one among the fisherfolk of Newhaven near Edinburgh’.alternatively it may be a variant of Fulcher (Middle English Fulcher Fulker Folker) with metathesis of l. See also Flockhart and Folkard with which the surname probably become confused. Compare the following all appearing as entries in IGI for the parish of Inveresk with Musselburgh Midlothian: Marion Flocard (1684) Jean Folkard (1687) and Agnes Fluker (1813). With Jeane Fluker (1604) compare Janet Fluckard 1680 both in IGI entries for Edinburgh.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
