Re: Arguments for croom's as Irish
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Re: Arguments for croom's as Irish
11/02/00
Hi,
If Croom's are Irish it was very very long ago.Can't find one in historic records that holds up to inspection.Your right gaelic was once wide spread; in fact, over much of europe.I've even found a spanish croom record.I have a theory that the name originated in Cornwall.A gaelic part of the world. Now maybe their Irish-irish danes raided Cornwall.Maybe they were gallowglass.Then again maybe not and all of that is probably unprovable. So this Croom root people then in the 1500's or so people started migrating into surrounding english counties.I find the most Croom's in gloucestershire in the 1600's and I rarely find them in mass there much before 1600.Yes, I've found many Croom's in Scotland, not as many as S england.Perhaps they have a common origin maybe not.
A problem with my theory is that I'm sure it can be proven one way or another.I've been told many early Cornish records were destroyed in bombing raids in WWII.
Have you seen Doris Outlaw's Croom book.There is a very flowery letter from an Irish genealogist or historian in there.It lacks specific info and rosely speaks of Crooms all over Ireland.A wee bit of blarney there I think!
Pam
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