words, rather than any set of rules. Cresswell has been spelled Carswell, Cresswell, Carsewell, Cressville, Carswele, Kersewell, Cressewell, Chriswell and many more. First found in Renfrewshire where they were recorded as a family of great antiquity seated at Carswell in the parish of Neilston in that shire, and later branched to