When John Wedge Crouch was born in 1691, in Kent, Maryland, British Colonial America, his father, Richard Crouch Sr., was 22 and his mother, Judith Wedge, was 21. He married Mary Hurtt on 24 December 1713, in Kent, Maryland, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1755, at the age of 64.
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English (southeastern): from Middle English crouch(e), cruch(e) ‘cross’ (Old English crūc, ultimately from Latin crux, crucem; the Old English crūc was replaced in Middle English by the word cross, from Old Norse kross), applied as a topographic name for someone who lived by a cross.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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