Help with a Hampshire placename please

[tn17]

Hi everybody,

Does anybody have any ideas what this place name might be? My first thought was that it might be a misspelt Crondall, but the first letter really doesn't look anything like the other C's on the page.

Oh, if it helps, this is from a shipping register upon immigration to Australia (i.e. no guarantees that the writer was familiar with the place). Unfortunately I have no other information that might help.

Thanks

TN

[franh1946]

Looks more like Grundle, doesn't it, which doesn't help as I can't find a Grundle in Hampshire.

[jusnoneed]

Could it be Crundle?

[tn17]

Could it be Crundle?

That was definitely my first thought, but it's quite different from all the other C's on the page (as in the example below)

[Henry7]

I can't see any likely places in Hampshire for Grindle, Grundle, or Crundle.

So, a wild guess: could it be "Erundle" - an attempt to write "Arundel"?  Arundel is in Sussex, but only 16 miles east of the Hampshire boundary.

Maybe the info was given by someone illiterate, or who had grown up in Hampshire, had been told they'd been born in Arundel, but didn't know it was in Sussex?

 

[tn17]

I can't see any likely places in Hampshire for Grindle, Grundle, or Crundle.

So, a wild guess: could it be "Erundle" - an attempt to write "Arundel"?  Arundel is in Sussex, but only 16 miles east of the Hampshire boundary.

Maybe the info was given by someone illiterate, or who had grown up in Hampshire, had been told they'd been born in Arundel, but didn't know it was in Sussex?
 

Hmmm I hadn't considered Arundel, but it's certainly possible. I like a good out of the box idea.

Oh, and also, the person in question could read but not write.

[John915]

Good evening,

I don't think it's Arundel, the register would be filled in by a shipping line employee. More than capable of writing and spelling. He would ask questions and enter the answers and I think even someone who was illiterate would know where they came from and where it was. Even if they could'nt write it down.
Only 2 places that fit starting "C" . Crondall (west of Farnham) and Crendell (north of Verwood)
Can find no "Gs" either. Of course, it could be a small hamlet not listed in map books etc. there are many of them about, or a part of some other town or village.

John915

[Little Nell]

Do I gather that the person concerned was named Sarah Price?  Is this her maiden name or married name?  And can you give an indication of the date of the record?

Trying to work from the opposite angle - can we find where she might have been born and does it look or sound anything like what seems to have been written.

Nell

[tn17]

Do I gather that the person concerned was named Sarah Price?  Is this her maiden name or married name?  And can you give an indication of the date of the record?

Trying to work from the opposite angle - can we find where she might have been born and does it look or sound anything like what seems to have been written.

Nell

I'll try but I don't know much.

Sarah Price is her married name. I don't know her maiden name. The shipping record lists her (age 43) and her husband George Price (age 29, from Wooton Bassett, Wiltshire) coming to Sydney (with no children) on the Herefordshire. I don't have any records for them before their trip to Australia and nothing definite afterwards.

I'm descended from George's brother William - about whom I know similarly little.