When James Willson Crookston was born on 28 April 1902, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James Bennie Crookston, was 26 and his mother, Amy Rachel Willson, was 23. He had at least 2 daughters with Mary Eleanor Stewart. He died on 23 October 1985, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
Scottish (Midlothian and Lanarkshire): habitational name, according to Black, from a place in Renfrewshire, which was named as the estate of one Robert Croc. There are other places, in the Border and Lothian regions of Scotland, with this name, from which the surname could have arisen.
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