Welcome to The Quickmire Family website.

Research into The Quickmire Family Tree has only ever managed to go back as  far back as around 1840 and this has always seemed strange, suggesting that  this was possibly due to immigration from another country.

However the real reason for this is that around that time the family name  changed.

The actual family name is not Quickmire but Crickmore. The reason for the  change is probably due to accent. In the mid 19th century part of the family  moved from its origins around the Norfolk/Suffolk border and moved to the  North East of England.

Presumably this was in search of work, and not being able to write, the family  names would not of been written but only heard. The Suffolk accent is then  likely to of been heard differently by the North East clerics and the  Crickmores became the Quickmires.

"Crickmore is an interesting and unusual English surname with spellings  Crichmer, Crickmore, Crickmoor, and Crickmer is English. It is locational from  and is from one of the estimated three thousand "medieval" villages and  hamlets that have now disappeared from the maps of the British Isles. The  prime cause of these disappearances was the enforced "clearing" and dispersal  of the former inhabitants, to make way for sheep pastures at the height of the  wool trade in the 14th Century. Natural causes such as the Black Death of  1348, also contributed to the lost village phenomenon. The original place may  have been located in Suffolk as the church records of the County show the name  to be prominent in that area. The placename itself contains the Old British  elements "cruc", a hill (pre-Roman), plus the second element "Mor", a moor  or "mere", a lake. Hence the place may have been a hill by a moor or lake. At  Syleham in Suffolk, Johanna Crickmer married Robert Kyss on June 12th 1542,  while here also, Johanna, daughter Alicia was christened on May 28th, 1553.  The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Cecilia  Crakemore, which was dated 1379, in the "Poll Tax records of Yorkshire",  during the reign of King Richard 11, known as "Richard of Bordeaux", 1377 -  1399. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation.  In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in  every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing  variants of the original spelling." - SOURCE www.surnamedb.com