Crete Family History
- Crete Name Meaning
- French (Crète, adjectival form Crété ‘crested’): nickname for an arrogant individual, from Old French creste ‘crest (of a hill)’ (Late Latin crista), used with reference to the comb of a rooster. Compare Old French crester ‘to strut’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 57,151 Historical Documents with Crete on Ancestry
- 18,618 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,542 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,183 Military Records
- 513 Immigration Records
- 28,295 Member Trees
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Number of Crete families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Crete families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Crete census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Crete census records
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