Brief Life History of Catherine
When Catherine Cross was born about 1750, in Launton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Cross, was 40 and her mother, Elizabeth Allam, was 34.
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Parents and Siblings
1711–1757 Male
1718–1764 Female
Siblings (6)
1738–1801 Female
1741–1786 Male
1744–1796 Male
1747–1833 Female
1750– Female
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World Events (3)
1801 · The Act of Union
Age 51
1815
Age 65
1823
Age 73
Name Meaning
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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