Cruwys Explained

Cruce is a surname which today is mainly found in America, Australia, Canada, England, Ireland and Wales. It is a variant form of Cruwys[Cruys][Cruice][Cruise][deCruis]; there are many others.^[1]

Notable people with this surname

• [Isaac Newton Cruce] 1735-1772, Belfast,Ireland-Charleston,South Carolina
• [Richard A. Cruce]1936-2018 Entrepreneur,Kentucky
• [Lee Cruce] 2nd Governor Oklahoma 1904-1908
• [Tom Cruise] 1960- American Actor
• Jill Cruwys (1943–1990), England cricketer
• Margaret Cruwys (1894–1968), Devon historian
• Robert Cruwys (1884–1951), cricketer
• Augustino de Cruce 1169 Norman Knight witnessed deed for Strongbow (Richard de Clare) Conquered Ireland

Fictional characters

• Cruwys Morchard, the alias of Clytie Potts in the 2006 novel A Darkling Plain

See also

• Cruwys (disambiguation), other meanings including places with this word in the name

External links

• The Cruwys One-Name Study
• The Cruwys/Cruse/Crewes DNA project

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cruwys One-Name Study. Guild of One-Name Studies. 23 June 2014.