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  Creekmore Family Crest / Creekmore Coat of ArmsThis English and German surname of CREEKMORE is of two-fold origin. It was a locational name meaning 'the dweller at the stream in the marsh or wasteland'. It was also a German occupational name for an innkeeper, derived originally from the Old German word KRETSCHAM (inn). The word is of Slavic origin, and rendered in Poland in the form KARCZMA. The name has spread widely in many forms which include KRETZSCHMER, KRATSCHMER, KARCZMARSKI, KREITCHMAN, KARCZMAR and KRACMARIK, to name but a few. Hereditary surnames were originally imported from France into England during the Norman Conquest of 1066. In the two centuries or so after the Conquest surnames were acquired by most families of major landholders, and many landed families of lesser importance. There appears to have been a constant trickle of migration into Britain between about the years 1200 and 150O, mostly from France and the Low Countries, with a small number of migrants from Scandinavia, Germany, Italy and the Iberian peninsular, and occasional individuals from further afield. During this period groups of aliens settled in this country as for example, the Germans who from the late 15th century onwards settled in Cumbria to work the metal mines. Immigration during this time had only a small effect on the body of surnames used in Britain. In many cases, the surnames of immigrants were thoroughly Anglicised. The late sixteenth century saw the arrival, mostly in London and the south-coast ports of large numbers of people fleeing from the war regions of France. Because of the close relationship between the English and German languages, some Germans are able to transform their names to the English form just by dropping a single letter. Many Germans have re-spelt their names in America. After the start of the first World War, Germans in great numbers Anglicized their names in an effort to remove all doubt as to their patriotism. Afterwards some changed back, and then during World War II the problem became acute once more, and the changing started all over again, although not with as much intensity. Many immigrants from Germany settled in Pennsylvania. |
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