Cruse Family History
- Cruse Name Meaning
- English: nickname from Middle English cr(o)us(e) ‘bold’, ‘fierce’. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from a place in France, perhaps Cruys-Staëte in Nord, apparently named with a Gaulish word crodiu ‘hard’. German: northern variant of Krause. Americanized spelling of German Kruse.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 326,027 Historical Documents with Cruse on Ancestry
- 114,334 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 60,413 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,970 Military Records
- 5,266 Immigration Records
- 134,044 Member Trees
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Number of Cruse families
 101 - 199  34 - 100 |
 1 - 33  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cruse families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cruse 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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