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The name of Crump is said to have been derived from the nickname "the Crump or
Crumpt" meaning "the crooked or bent" and was probably given originally to one
answering to that description. It is found on ancient records in the various forms of
Crumpt, Crumppe, Cromppe, Crompe, Crumpe, Crombe, Crumbe, Cromb, Crumb,
Crowp, and Crump; of which the last is the form most generally accepted in America
today.
Families bearing this name were to be found at early dates in the English counties of
Salop, Oxford, Kent, Worcester, Sussex. and London. as well as in the Irish counties
of Kerry and Meath arid the Welsh county of Glamorgan, and were, for the most part,
of the landed gentry and yeomanry of Great Britain.
Among the earliest; although unconnected, records of the name in England were those
of Richard le Crumppe, of Shropshire (County Salop) in 1273; Constancia Crompe of
Oxfordshire about the same time; Hught le Crumpe of a slightly later date; William
Crompe of Worcestershire, who was married in 1546 to Katherine Kyghly; Thomas
Crowpe of London about 1564; and George Crumpe of St, James Clarkenwell in the latter half of the seventeenth century.
In the early fifteenth century one John Crumpe is said to have resided in Glamorganshire,
Wales. and as early as 1457 record is found there of one Henry Crumpe, possibly a son of
John. Another John Crumpe of this line is said to have married Janet, daughter of John ap (son of) Henry ap Evan Cradoc, and to have had issue by her of Thomas, Harry, Avise,
and probably others, of whom the first may possibly have been the father of Nicholas
Crumpe of London and the second is believed to have had at least one son named Harry
and probably others as well.
The Sussex line of the family is said to have descended from one John Crumpe of County
Kent in the latter half of the sixteenth century, who was the father of Nicholas, who
removed to Sussex and married Barbara Clerke, by whom he had issue of John, who had
issue by his first wife Bridget Andrews of a daughter named Bridget and by his second
wife Jane Calthorpe of seven children, Francis, John, Martin, Thomas, Hester, Helen, and
Alice.
One Francis Crumpe of County Kerry, Ireland. (possibly the before-mentioned son of John
of Sussex) was probably married about the middle of the seventeenth century to Dorcas
Urpen and was the father by her of Samuel and Dorcas, of whom the first married Lucy
Loughlin and had three sons, Samuel, Francis and Daniel.
It is not definitely known from which of the many illustrious lines of the family in Great
Britain the first emigrants of the name to America were descended, but it is generally
believed that all the Crumps were of common ancestry at a remote period.
Possibly the first of the name in America was Thomas Crump. who is said to have
migrated to Virginia about 1624 and settled at James City. where he was a burgess in
1631. He is said to have Married Elizabeth Bucks but the names of their children are not
certain.
In 1637 one Giles Crump made his home in Henrico County, Virginia, but no definite
record has been found concerning his immediate family or descendants, if any.
Other early emigrants of the name to Virginia were William Cromp of 1648, 30 Thomas
Crumpe of Northampton County in 1653, and Thomas Crump of Gloucester County in
1655. The records of these then are, however. equally inadequate.
One Daniel Crumb or Cromb ( some of whose descendants probably used the more
frequently used form of Crump) is said to have settled at Westerly, Rhode Island before
1669. by his wife, the Widow Alice Haughton, he way have had two children, a son.
William, and a daughter whose name is not known, but it is thought more probable that
they were by a former marriage. Of these children of the emigrant Daniel, the son
William is said to have had issue by his wife Hannah of Joseph, William, Rachel, Mercy,
Jemima, and Elizabeth.
William Crump who was living in York County, Virginia in 1660. is claimed by some,
authorities to have been the son of the first emigrant Thomas of 1624. but this is not
certain. William was probably the father of Richard. who was the father in the early
eighteenth century of a son also named Richard. as well as probably others.
Among the many others of the name who have emigrated to America at later dates was
one James A. Crump who came from England to Whately, Massachusetts, in the early
nineteenth century and later removed to Newark, New Jersey, by his wife Julia Bruce,
whom he married in 1844, he was the father of Mari Isabel, James A., George W., Julia
Annettea and George H..
The descendants of these and probably of other branches of the family in America have
spread to practically every state of the Union and have aided as much in the growth of the
country as their ancestors aided in the founding of the nation. They have been noted for
their energy, industry, ingenuity, integrity, piety, resourcefulness, courage. and loyalty.
Among those of the Crumps who fought in the War of the Revolution were Captains
Abner and Goodrich of Virginia, and numerous others from the various other American
colonies.
William, Thomas, Richard, Harry, Samuel, Francis, Daniel, Joseph, John, and James are
some of the Christian names most highly favored by the family for it's male members.
Still another Author La Reina Rule, in a 1968 article of Southland Magazine "Crump was the characterization of an English ancestor who "stooped" or who "stood crookedly". Shropshire records of 1273 list Richard Le Crump. American ancestores were headed by Thomas Crump who left Britain for Virginia in 1624. The Crump armorial Shield is red with a silver chevron between three silver four leaf clovers".
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