Cracket-ton, Croggan-ton, a place where are shells (crogen, a shell, pl. kregyn); but these surnames are rather from crow-gon, the cross on the down.
CROKE, CROOK. From crug, cruc, cryk, a barrow, hillock.
CROOME. A family that held the barton of Trelevan in Mevagissey. From croum, croom, krum, crooked (W. crom, crwn). The Croomes are said to have been originally from Wales.
CROW, CROWE. From crou, crow, a cross.
CROWGEY. From Crowgy in Constantine, or Crowgy in Gwennap; from crou-ke, the cross by the hedge. The last syllable might also be from gy, a brook, or chy, a house.
CRUDGE. From cruc, a buttock, a barrow; or from crou, a cross.
CUER. From cuer, cur (L. curia), a court; or guêr, green, lively, flourishing; whence Geare, the name of several places in this county.
CUMBELLAC. See Combellack.
CUNDOR. See Condor.
CUNNACK, CUNNICK. See Cennick.
CURGANVEN, CURGENVEN, CURGENWEN (commonly written Cargenwen). From car-gwynn, the white rock or castle. Hence perhaps, by corruption, the surname Chirgwin.
CURLYON. See Carlian.
CURNOE, CURNOW. These names mean high rocks or shelves in the sea; properly, says Pryce, a heap of rocks, a rocky place (carnou, pl. of carn, carne). Hence also Cornow and Kernow; but the latter is also the Cornish for Cornwall.
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