Research in England has determined, on the basis of parish registers, census, and other records, that this surname is derived from one of two place names.  One is the parish of Crundwell, in Kent.  The other is Crundel (now Crundelend), a farm in the parish of Abberley, Worcestershire.  These two locations, the first in England’s Southeast and the second in the West Midlands, are the reason behind the historical distribution of the surname either in Kent and London on the one hand or in Worcestershire and surrounding counties (Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Gloucestershire) on the other.  Descendants of families who took their name from Crundall, Hampshire seem to have died out by the 16^th century.

    John Crandall (1618-1676), an early settler of Westerly, Rhode Island, is the ancestor of what today is the largest branch of the family.  We believe him to be the child baptized at Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, in 1618 and the great-grandson of Nicholas Crundall (died 1589), a native of the Midlands (more specifically, he was born within the diocese of Hereford), who was vicar of Winterbourne, Gloucestershire.  The ancestor of another, apparently unrelated family, Thomas Crandall, settled in Maryland in the late 17^th century. 

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