When Yelverton Crowell was born on 26 October 1686, in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Crowell, was 37 and his mother, Deborah, was 35. He died in 1704, in his hometown, at the age of 18.
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English: habitational name from a lost place called Crowell in Spofforth (Yorkshire), or from a place in Oxfordshire named Crowell, from Old English crāwe ‘crow’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’.
Americanized form of German Grauel .
Americanized form of Dutch Krouwel or Crouwel: from Middle Dutch crauwel ‘trident hook, claw’, a metonymic occupational name for someone using this kind of tool, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn named In de Crouwel (‘In the Trident Hook’), with such a device depicted on the signboard.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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