Cromer Family History
- Cromer Name Meaning
- French: from a Germanic personal name, Hrodmar, composed of hrod ‘renown’, ‘glory’ + mar ‘famous’. English: habitational name from Cromer in Norfolk, recorded in the 13th century as Crowemere, from Old English crawe ‘crow’ + mere ‘lake’. Variant spelling of German and Jewish Kromer.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 284,761 Historical Documents with Cromer on Ancestry
- 58,228 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 33,473 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,789 Military Records
- 2,002 Immigration Records
- 183,269 Member Trees
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Number of Cromer families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cromer census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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