Cruce is a
surname
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which today is mainly found in
America
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,
Australia
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,
Canada,
England,
Ireland and
Wales. It is a variant form of
Cruwys ruysCruice]
ruisedeCruis]; there are many others.
Notable people with this surname
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saac Newton Cruce1735-1772, Belfast,Ireland-Charleston,South Carolina
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ichard A. Cruce936-2018 Entrepreneur,Kentucky
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ee Cruce2nd Governor Oklahoma 1904-1908
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om Cruise
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1960- American Actor
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Jill Cruwys
Jill Elizabeth Cruwys (5 December 1943 – 30 December 1990) was an English cricketer who played primarily as a batter. She appeared in 5 Test matches and 7 One Day Internationals for England between 1969 and 1976. Cruwys was a member of the s ...
(1943–1990), England cricketer
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Margaret Cruwys
Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys née Abercrombie (20 October 1894 – 12 March 1968) was an archivist and Devon historian. She was born in Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, and was the daughter of Alexander Houghton Abercrombie, an officer in the 21st Royal ...
(1894–1968), Devon historian
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Robert Cruwys
Robert Geoffrey Cruwys (10 March 1884 – 25 August 1951) was an English cricketer and clergyman. He was born in the family manor, Cruwys Morchard House, located in Cruwys Morchard, a small parish in Devon which takes the name from the 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
''A Darkling Plain'' is the fourth and final novel in the ''Mortal Engines Quartet'' series, written by British author Philip Reeve.
The novel won the 2006 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young ...
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See also
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Cruwys (disambiguation), other meanings including places with this word in the name
References
External links
The Cruwys One-Name StudyThe Cruwys/Cruse/Crewes DNA project
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Surnames of Norman origin