Creek Family History
Creek Name Meaning
English: habitational name for someone from North or South
Creake in Norfolk, named from Celtic creig ‘cliff’, ‘rock’.English: from Middle English creke ‘basket’ (Old
French creche), hence a metonymic occupational name for a
basket maker.Americanized spelling of German Krieg,
German and Jewish Krick, or Dutch Kriek, a metonymic
occupational name for a fruit grower or dealer, from Middle Dutch
krieke ‘cherry’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Creek Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Creek families
 32 - 62  11 - 31 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Creek families
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58 - 114 20 - 57 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Creek families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Creek census records
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Creek Family Origin
Creek Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Creek
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Creek Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Creek census records
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Creek Civil War Service Records
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