Historical documents, treatises, biographies, theories and debunked legends concerning the early Cruttendens and Crittendens of England, the New World and Australasia.

The Cruttenden family name and its derivatives have a common root in a place name in south-east England.

However, there are a number of people who bear the name, particularly Crittenden, who are of Anglo-Saxon ethnicity in the male line but now identify themselves with another ethnic group or have come by the name by some other cause. I am keen to make contact with such people to understand how the name has spread.