The name Crosse does not appear in the archives quite as often as the name Russell and is even more rarely qualified by the phrase "of Hurst". Richard Crosse was one of the signatories to a declaration of the Bounds of Worplesdon made in 1562 but we found no mention of any member of this family in the Survey of that Manor made in 1604. However both William Crosse and the heirs of John Crosse are listed in the Lay Subsidy assessments for Worplesdon in 1593/4. (The Lay Subsidy was a tax on movable items levied between 1181 and 1623.)

More pertinently William Crosse is named in a register of Burgham Rentalls dated 8th October 1610, under the heading "Burgham et Teresworth". This is presumably the same William Crosse of Burfam who died in 1614, leaving two sons, William, aged 30, and Harry, aged 28, as well as a daughter Agnes, aged 26, who had married Henry Trigge. Perhaps the latter's family was associated with Triggs Lock nearby on the River Wey.

Hurst. In 1619 his elder son William was described in the will of Thomas Russell of Hurst as "my neighbour", so clearly, by that time at least, the Crosse family were resident in the house east of the Woking Road. An even earlier will of Thomas Russell the Elder had referred to "Thomas Crosse, my brother-in-law" but we have not yet discovered the latter's relationship to the two Williams.

Also in 1619 William Crosse granted passage to Richard Weston for his "new river" which had been dug to carry water from the River Wey at Stoke to irrigate the grounds of Sutton Place. This channel passed through two fields called Southfield and Clay Croft which lay South of Clay Lane and East of what is now Jacobs Well Road, and from the grant it appears that William of Burfam had leased this property from the Lord of the Manor of Burgham in 1591.

Meanwhile William appears to have had four sons, John, William, Thomas and Henry and two daughters, Ann and Jane. We know little about most of them except that in 1667 Henry was awarded a pension for "wounds suffered in the late wars" - possibly the wars with the Dutch which had recently ended.

In 1661, after the restoration of the monarchy, Parliament called on the population for a "Free and Voluntary Present" to King Charles II to help to reduce the substantial debt which he had incurred during his exile. This was collected on specified dates in certain market towns - in the case of Guildford on 3rd September, 2nd November and 9th November. Donations totalling £23.18s.8d from 47 parishioners of Worplesdon included 10/- from Wm Crosse, yeoman, and 15/- from Thomas Crosse, yeoman. ("Yeoman" denoted a prominent citizen, for instance a farmer, who could not be styled "gentleman" because he worked with his hands.)

William (the third known to us by this name) in turn had a son named William, born in 1641. This William Crosse (the fourth) is the one about whom we have the most information. For example in 1668 he was the Constable of Worplesdon and in 1678 he and his neighbour Thomas Russell were among the parishioners of St Mary the Virgin at Worplesdon who undertook to furnish new wooden rails to enclose the churchyard. In 1686 he commissioned a survey of his property, amounting to 107 acres, which is depicted on the map mentioned in the chapter on Hurst.

William lived to a good age - the inscription on his gravestone, in the middle of the Chancel of St Mary's , said "died 15.11.1719 aged 77 years". He and his wife Joane had three daughters, Catherine, Jane and Elizabeth but no sons. Catherine died at 19 months and her gravestone was inside the church of St Mary's, Worplesdon. Jane Cross apparently never married and lived only to 48 years of age. However the youngest daughter, Elizabeth lived to the same advanced age as her father during which time she became Mrs Leeves and bore two children. Her firstborn, William died when he was 19 and was named on the same memorial as his grandfather and his aunt Jane. Both this memorial and his aunt Catherine's gravestone disappeared in "the year of disgrace, 1866, when some £2,000 was spent in despoiling the church". (This strong comment was made in the notes on the history of the church published in 1951 referring to an event which the current notes describe more diplomatically as "the 1866 restoration").

Elizabeth Leeves' second child, Elizabeth, married Samuel Ayling of Petworth, Sussex and they had a son Francis who died at the age of 9 years.

By the time of the death of William Crosse's daughter in 1771, the Crosse property had shrunk to 60 acres. His grand-daughter inherited but because she and her husband lived at Petworth they leased "Great Hurst" to Worplesdon farmers and the connection between the Crosse family and Hurst became very tenuous. After the deaths of Samuel Ayling in 1805 and Elizabeth Ayling in 1807 their heirs continued as landlords of Hurst but eventually sold it to Richard Sparkes in 1826 and the connection of the Crosse family with this part of the world finally ended.