When William Crouch was christened in 1796, in Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Matthew Crouch, was 44 and his mother, Sarah Devonshire, was 36.
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.
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