Crook Family History
Crook Name Meaning
from the Old Norse byname Krókr meaning
‘crook’, ‘bend’, originally possibly bestowed on a cripple or
hunchback or a devious schemer, but in early medieval England used as
a personal name.from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’, ‘bend’,
borrowed into Middle English as a vocabulary word and applied as a
metonymic occupational name for a maker, seller, or user of hooks or a
topographic name for someone who lived by a bend in a river or
road. In some instances the surname may have arisen as a habitational
name from places in Cumbria and Durham named Crook from this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Crook
Name Distribution of Crook Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Crook families
 1,794 - 3,586  599 - 1,793 |
 1 - 598  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Crook families
|
25 - 48 9 - 24 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Crook census records
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Crook Family Origin
Crook Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Crook Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Crook families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Crook Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Crook census records
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Military Service by Crook
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