When Clara Morgan Cruse was born on 19 January 1890, in Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Thomas Wakeman, was 22 and her mother, Rhoda Cruse, was 21. She married William Henry Silvey on 1 September 1910, in Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 2 April 1979, in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 89.
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English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name probably from an unidentified place in Normandy named with Old French crues, crus, creus ‘hollow’. Creuse (in Somme, Picardy) and Cruys-Straëte (formerly in Flanders, now in the French département of Nord), which have the same etymology, are alternative possibilities but seem less likely on geographical and tenurial grounds.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English crus(e) ‘bold, fierce’, although the regular development would be to Crowse (rhyming with house).
North German: variant of Krause .
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