On 29/6/09 19:52, "Herbert Crandell" <hccjr@umich.edu> wrote: > I would be grateful for information about the origins and/or naming of > Crundale. > > I'm in the process of revising and article I wrote in 1998 discussing > the origins of the surname Crandall and it's many variant spellings. > (If anyone's interested you can find the original at > www.cfa.net/cfa/crundel.html.) My belief is that this surname derives > from proximity to to a landscape feature known as a crundel, many of > which were used as boundary markers in > Anglo-Saxon manorial charters. Some may have been the location of chalk > quarries, i.e. Crondall in HAM and Crundale in KEN. Somehow, from > the limited knowledge I have, > Crundale in PEM doesn't seem to fit. > > In "The Surnames of Wales" (1996) John and Sheila Rowlands discuss the > surname Crunn (pp.87-88) and offer this intriguing statement: > > "By 1670 [Pembrokeshire Hearth Tax] John Crunn is an inhabitant of > Dale, and, in 18C, a number > of Crunns are found in central and north Pembrokeshire." > > I'm unable to find Dale, but wonder if perhaps Crundale might have had a > later foundation (late 17th or 18th centuries) perhaps by the Crunn family. > > Any thoughts? > > Herb Crandell > Michigan, USA Hello Herb "the Place-names of Pembrokeshire" has very little to say and apart frpm ancient spellings which appear to go back to 1450 {cru dale], 1592 [Crondall] and 1613 [Croundall] suggest the meaning "Quarry" from Old English "crundel". Gerry Lewis