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"Crooks" is a patronymic from "Crook"
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
"Crook"
- from the Old Norse byname Krókr meaning 'crook', 'bend', originally possibly bestowed on a cripple or hunchback or a devious schemer, but in early medieval England used as a personal name.
- from Old Norse krókr 'hook', 'bend', borrowed into Middle English as a vocabulary word and applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker, seller, or user of hooks or a topographic name for someone who lived by a bend in a river or road. In some instances the surname may have arisen as a habitational name from places in Cumbria and Durham named Crook from this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
* Information taken from Ancestry.com surname search
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