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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of Dutch Krankheid (see Cronkhite).
  • The ancestors of the American Cronkite family, including the broadcaster Walter Cronkite (born 1919), were Dutch merchants who settled in the 17th century in what is now New York, then the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

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