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Crocker Origin |
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THE CROCKER NAME is a name that begins almost as early in the history of this country as the Pilgrims who came to the New World in 1620 and settled at Plymouth in what was to become the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. William Crocker left his home in Devonshire, England, at about the age of 25. He boarded the ship "Griffin" which sailed across the Atlantic Ocean into the port of Boston, a little town with a good harbor on the shore of Cape Cod Bay. From there William went to another small town, south of Boston, named Scituate. There he built a house on Kent Street and attended church. While living in Scituate in 1636 William met and married his wife Alice. They lived in his house living in Scituate until the fall of 1639 and then moved to Barnstable on Cape Cod. In Barnstable they attended the church of Rev. John Lothrop. Most New England Crockers are descended from this English couple. --adapted from Andrea Leonard |