Craig, have you ever come across an explanation of the surname Crumpler, originally Crumplehere. Does anyone have an explanation for it? Reaney and Wilson's Dictionary of English Surnames doesn't include it. The surname seems to have two elements, though I'm unsure whether the first element is 'crump' or 'crumple'. Either way my guess is that it is either the OE and ME word cromb, cromp, meaning 'hook', 'crook', or 'bent', 'crooked', 'twisted', or 'cromple', a word derived from it. If the second part were 'hair', then the whole would mean something like 'crumpled hair' or 'tangled hair'. Matt