Crane Family Tree research resources
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 6318 people with the Crane surname? In that year Crane was ranked number 653 for popularity in the UK. |
Crane records on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your Crane family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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Historical References
"CRANE, GRAN, CRANN. An Old English (Anglo-Saxon) personal name. See CRANSTON. In 1261 an inquest found that a man named Crane had held, by gift of King William the Lion, the lands of Inyaney and the office of gate-keeper of the royal castle, and that he never raised an army or gave assistance or did anything else in the 0 world for the said lands, except gate-keeper of our lord the king's castle of Montrose ("Nee dederunt auxilium nee aliquid aliud in mundo pro dicta terra facerunt nisi officium Janue Castri domini Regis de Munros") (APS., i, p. 100). Cran and Crann are current in the shires of Aberdeen, Banff, and Inverness, and Patrick Crane is recorded in Aberdeen in 1398 (CRA., p. 373). Crane is the spelling used by an old family in the parish of Maryton. The English personal name Crane is commonly said to be from the name of the bird, but we must remember that mediaeval epithet names are often something entirely different when properly studied. So many of the beast, bird, and fish names which enter so largely into personal nomenclature belong to a very old stratum, and in fact go back definitely to heathen times, "and there is no evidence that they were given as nicknames. They are real personal names, traditional with the race, given at birth with little or no thought of any application of the name to the appearance or disposition of the child." "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Crane Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Crane Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Crane family tree.
Look at Crane Parish Records at Find My Past.
Search the UK registered births, marriages and deaths for the Crane family name using the FreeBMD database.
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Study the LDS Database for records of the Crane family.
Research the Crane surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Crane Military records.
| Did you know that there are currently 8590 people with the Crane surname in the UK? Crane is now ranked number 687 for popularity in the UK. |
Crane Family Tree Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 42535 people with the Crane surname in the USA? Crane is ranked number 143 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Crane Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on the Crane family. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Use the Surname Map project to look at the current distribution of the Crane surname in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Romania.
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