1166 "Notinghamscira. Carta Radulfi Ansel (Hansel). Domino suo Henrico regi Anglorum, Radulfus Ansel salutem et fidele servitium. Seiatis quod de veteri feffamento meo, tempore Regis Henrici avi vestri ... [Et] istud est de novo:-- Alexander de Creissi tenet feodum dimidii militis. ... Adam de Creissi tenet xxiiijam (vicesimam quartam) partum (j) militis et torum aliud facio de meo dominio de xxv militibus quos vobis debeo." [1]
Surname de Cressy in Domesday Descendants:[2]
Adam de Creissi "Held a fraction of a fee de novo from Ralph II Hanselin in 1166. Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. Hall (1897), pp. 378-80 [note: should be 340-41]."
Alexander de Creissi "Held one fee de novo of Ralph II Hanselin in 1166. He granted land at Cranwell, Dunsby and Brauncewell, Lincolnshire, to Catley priory in 1182 (Gilberine Ch. Catley, p. 83). Red book of the Exchequer, ed. Hall (1897), pp. 340-41."
Berenger de Creissi "Brother of Hugh de Creissy (Cart. Castle Acre, BL Harley 2110, fol. 8). First husband of Isabel de Gressinghall (q.v.). Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, IV, p. 52, no. XIII."
Claricia Uxor Walteri de Creissi. "Wife of Walter de Creissi, a benefactor of Bullington priory c. 1150. Stenton. Documents illustrative of Danelaw (1920), no. 93."
Hugo de Creissi. "Accounted for the land of his nephew ('nepos') in 1165/6 and held one fee of the honour of Giffard in 1166. From Cressy, Seine-Maritime, arr. Dieppe, cant. Bellencombre. Married Margaret daughter and coheir of William de Chesney, through whom he acquired lands in the honour of Warenne. He died in 1189. Cf. Loyd, 35. In 1242/3 Hugh de Cressy held two fees of Giffards's sucessor in Chearsley and Policote, Buckinghamshire (Fees, 881). Brown, Sibton Abbey Cartularies (1987), no. 474; Pipe Roll 31 Henry I, 49-hn; Pipe Roll 12 Henry II, 51-bl Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. Hall (1897), pp. 312-13."
Rainald de Creissi "Son of Walter de Creissi and Claricia. Stenton. Documents illustrative of Danelaw (1920), no. 92-94."
Walter de Creissi "Benefactor of Bullington priory, to which he gave land in Redbourne, Lincolnshire, c. 1150, occurring with his wife Claricia and son Rainald. Stenton. Documents illustrative of Danelaw (1920), no. 91-95."
[1] Hubert Hall, ed., Red Book of the Exchequer, Vol. 1 (London: HMSO, 1896), 340-341, [HathiTrust].
[2] K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of persons occurring in English documents, 1066-1166: II Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum (Boydell Press, 2002), 415-16.