When Thomas Crank ll was born about 1680, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Crank, was 31 and his mother, Ann, was 21. He married Ann Goodlow in 1675, in Middlesex, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 6 May 1727, in Middlesex, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 48, and was buried in Christchurch, Middlesex, Virginia, British Colonial America.
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English (mainly Lancashire): from Middle English cranke ‘lively, lusty, vigorous’, hence a nickname for a cheerful, boisterous, or merry person.
English: possibly in some cases, a nickname from cranuc, a diminutive of Middle English cran ‘crane’ (see Crane ).
Possibly an Americanized form of German Kranke: from Low German Kraneke ‘crane’, applied to someone thought to resemble the bird in some way, or a nickname for a poor physical specimen, from Middle High German kranc ‘sickly, ailing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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