Crookshanks name defined

[a_reader2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 96985

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, catportkey at a... wrote:
 Some cat loving readers prefer the illustrations of Kate 
> Greenway, Walter Crane or George Cruikshank."
>     Cruikshank   =  Crookshanks
>     What do you think?


Carolyn:
Probably George Cruikshank's family name originated in the same way 
as Crookshanks' - from the bandy legs of an ancestor !