This surname is rare usually found in Worcestershire. Crowle and Crowle Green are tiny hamlets to the east of Worcester, probably the source. Is there any evidence of our Crowle being used as a surname? Bill Goldthorp.
According t the following article, Justice Hall was built in 1728 by George Stovin – the antiquary and was so named because he was a magistrate – this has nothing to do with the Manor of Crowle. A search of possible sources provides an answer in “Lincolnshire notes and queries, Volume 4” published in 1896. This is available on-line at http://www.archive.org/stream/lincolnshirenot01sympgoog#page/n6/mode/2up Page 89/90 Lincolnshire Notes & Queries. […]
Hannah Stanniforth aged 33 married John Everatt aged 39 in 1857. According to family tradition,(my mother and aunts) an arranged marriage. I have always felt proud of my 12.5% Everatt genes and totally neglected the 12.5% Stanniforth ones. Looking at John Everatt’s career, the reason is obvious, 1841 age 22, agricultural labourer, 1851 age 32, farmer 6 acres, 1861 age 42, farmer 50 acres, 1881 […]
The Robinsons The earliest record of the Robinsons is in the Census of 1841 when John Robinson, a coal merchant born in Epworth in about 1776, was living with his wife Elizabeth (born in about 1780) at Crowle Wharf. The household also included John’s son George born in Hatfield in about 1810 and his wife, Hannah Whittaker born in Selby two years later. George and […]
Anderson Hind farmed 700 acres in Crowle. His father, John, bought a Mill in Crowle at the beginning of the 19th Century and by 1841 three sons were farming a large portion of the Crowle countryside. Anderson was living at the Tithe House, his brothers James and Thomas were farming Crowle Grange and Ealand Grange respectively. The article on Anderson Hind can be found by […]
It is suprising what you can find with this family history lark. My engagement was not as complicated as this and there is no way Major (he was in the Pay Corps) Hubert Leslie de Courcey ( he added that bit himself to sound posh) Grylls would have coughed up 26 marks when I married Margaret. He would have cheerfully sold her to me given […]