Nicholas Crundall

Abt 1525 - 1589  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Nicholas Crundall
  Birth	Abt 1525	of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 12 Oct 1589 and 6 Nov 1589	Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, England   [1]
  Person ID	I3908	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2024

  
  

  Family	(Unknown wife of Nicholas Crundall)   d. Bef 12 Oct 1589
  Children	+ 1. Nicholas Crundall,   b. Abt 1555, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d. Bef 1608, Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, England (Age ~ 52 years)
  Family ID	F1155	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He may have been a son of Edward Crondall of Tewkesbury, who died in or after 1548 and of whom Paul M. Gifford (citation details below) writes: "Identified as a barber, he appears in a list, made in 1539-1540, of free tenants of the borough of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, as holding a tenement in the tenure of William Dewey, in the area of Alle Keylane all the way to the High Cross Cersus, towards the Avon River. He also held a tenement on Oldebury Street across Oldbury Field at Le Toll Booth that was in the tenure of Elice Prist. He was one of fifteen freemen of Tewkesbury, including the curate and the stipendiary priest, to appear in a bishop's visitation list in 1548." "[Nicholas Crundall] presumably received the usual education to become a priest, probably at Tewkesbury Abbey. During the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553), he may have received a dispensation to marry, since his eldest son James was probably born by 1555 or so. Queen Mary's return to Roman authority (1553-1558) would have required him to be celibate, but we can only speculate whether he followed suit. We can assume, in any case, he was a parish clerk by 1553, when he began writing wills for Tewkesbury residents, with opening clauses ambiguous enough to satisfy both Catholic beliefs and Protestant authorities. He was a clergyman, in any case, on 16 November 1564, when he acted as surrogate for Mr. John Louth as magistrate in the parish court of Tewkesbury, and in 1565 a cause in that court describes him as curate of Tewkesbury. In 1565 he was the incumbent of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, with the patronage of Bigland, as he was in 1566 and 1567. On 18 July 1567, there was a cause in the parish court brought against him. He disappears from the Tewkesbury records after July 1572. On 29 November 1572, Nicholas Crondall was made the incumbent of Winterbourne, with the patronage of Mergerie, widow of Robert Bradstone. On 3 April 1577, he was sworn and collated by the Bishop of Gloucester to the rectory and parish church of Iron Acton, Gloucestershire. In 1583, a storm ruined the Winterbourne church's stone steeple and damaged the church, which, according to remarks noted in the parish register of Almondsbury, developed into discord between 'old Mr. parson Crondall' and his parishioners." [Paul M. Gifford, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S930] Paul M. Gifford, "The Probable Origins and Ancestry of John Crandall, of Westerly, Rhode Island (1618-1676)." Rhode Island Roots 32:165, December 2006.