[Ancestor] Crawford

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Husband [Ancestor] Crawford

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1 M Robert Crawford ^{1 2}

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Crawford

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The original home of the Crawford family was Ardlock or Crawfordland in Ayrshire, Scotland, on the side of the River Clyde. The earliest Crawfords were Caledonians and traced their lineage to the Earls of Richmond. The most remote ancestor bearing the name of Crawford was Reginald de Crawford who was called "the Good" and was sheriff of Ayr, an office which was held in the family for many generations. He inherited the family home at Ardlock. This Reginald de Crawford was the great-great-grandfather of Margaret who married Malcolm Wallace and became the mother of Scotland's immortal hero, Sir William Wallace. The early Crawfords were agressive and victorious in battle. In the latter part of the 16th century, Thomas Crawford captured Dumbarton Castle, a feat that was thought impossible. Other valuable conquests were the taking of the castles of Kilburnie and Kirk. The Crawfords were Presbyterians and left Scotland at the time of Charles II on account of religious persecution, coming to Ireland and thence to Pennsylvania.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 96.

2 Margaret White Loomis, The Presbyterian Families of White, Crawford, Hanna and Sharp (Winnetka, IL: Self-published, 1940), Pg 2, 7.