<<Joining in without having looked at any origins of names books, I have a suggestion to make. Could it possibly be approached through the occupation route? That is, could there be an industry or craft called crumpling and workers called crumplers?>> It would certainly be possible that Crumpler was an occupational name (and one of the explanations Craig found on the internet was occupational - maker of crumpets), were it not for the fact that the early form of the name seems to have been Crumplehere, with Crumpler a late shortening of it. Though at the moment it isn't completely certain that this was the original form of the name - the examples in the documents Craig has posted, from 1570-1633, have certainly all been Crumpleher(e), but that's quite a small sample, and it would be interesting to find other early examples of the name, from the 16C or earlier, to see if they take the same form. Matt

This is supposing that the spelling particularly important. Would it not have been the same as for the rest of spelling at that time, i.e. phonetical rather than adherence to a particular form? Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tompkins, M.L.L." <mllt1@leicester.ac.uk> To: <old-english@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [OEL] FW: Crumplehere the surname > <<Joining in without having looked at any origins of names books, I have a > suggestion to make. Could it possibly be approached through the occupation > route? That is, could there be an industry or craft called crumpling and > workers called crumplers?>> > > > It would certainly be possible that Crumpler was an occupational name (and > one of the explanations Craig found on the internet was occupational - > maker of crumpets), were it not for the fact that the early form of the > name seems to have been Crumplehere, with Crumpler a late shortening of > it. > > Though at the moment it isn't completely certain that this was the > original form of the name - the examples in the documents Craig has > posted, from 1570-1633, have certainly all been Crumpleher(e), but that's > quite a small sample, and it would be interesting to find other early > examples of the name, from the 16C or earlier, to see if they take the > same form. > > Matt > > > > ==================================== > WEB PAGE: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OLD-ENGLISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.9/1989 - Release Date: 03/07/09 18:43:00