Crank Family History
- Crank Name Meaning
- English (chiefly Lancashire): from Middle English cranke ‘lively’, ‘lusty’, ‘vigorous’, hence a nickname for a cheerful, boisterous, or cocky person. English: nickname from cranuc, a diminutive of Middle English cran ‘crane’ (see Crane). Possibly an Americanized spelling 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’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 174,338 Historical Documents with Crank on Ancestry
- 47,581 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 22,327 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,073 Military Records
- 1,608 Immigration Records
- 98,749 Member Trees
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Number of Crank families
 30 - 57  11 - 29 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Crank families
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199 - 396 67 - 198 |
1 - 66 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Crank families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Crank census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Crank census records
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- All Crank
- 109
- Confederate
- 54
- Union
- 55
from the Civil War Service Records
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