When Richard Willis Cross was born on 29 February 1896, in Virginia, United States, his father, James Reddick Cross, was 33 and his mother, Sarepta A Jones, was 22. He married Maude Valeria Parker on 27 December 1919. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Norfolk, Virginia, United States in 1920 and Tanners Creek District, Norfolk County, Virginia, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 13 May 1964, in Virginia, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Norfolk, Norfolk County, Virginia, United States.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived near a cross, such as one set up by the roadside or in a marketplace, from Middle English cros (Old English cros and Old Norse kross, ultimately from Latin crux, crucem). It is commonly Latinized in medieval records as ad crucem and de Cruce but examples of this can just as well belong to the synonymous but less common name Crouch . In a few cases the surname may have been given originally to someone who lived by a crossroads, but this sense of the word seems to have been a comparatively late development. In other cases, the surname (and its European cognates; see 3 below) may have denoted someone who carried the cross in processions of the Christian Church, but in English at least the usual word for this sense was Crozier .
Irish: shortened form of McCrossen .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cross’ or ‘the cross’, such as French Lacroix , German Kreutz , and Slovenian and Croatian Križ (see Kriz ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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