Crooke baronets

The Crooke Baronetcy of Baltimore, County Cork was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland.

The Crooke family came originally from Cransley in Northamptonshire; Thomas Crooke, the father of the first baronet, was a well-known preacher of strongly Calvinist views.

Sir Thomas Crooke was granted substantial lands in County Cork in 1607.

A Privy Council investigation in 1608 cleared him of any wrongdoing, but his innocence or guilt is still a matter of debate.

The title became dormant in 1666, when the son of the 2nd Baronet, Thomas, obtained a patent on 12 July 1666 for certain lands, and on marrying the sister of the forfeiting proprietor of these lands (Ellen MacDermot MacCarthy, the daughter of Tiege MacDermot MacCarthy), he dropped the title.