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Crathornes in Ireland Quite when the first Crathorne set foot in Ireland remains shrouded in the mists of time. However the Calendar of Patent Rolls for Queen Elizabeth has listed for 1567: "Pardon
for Thomas Younger - alias Crathorne and Nicholas Gybson ‘Yeoman’ So we have a date for at least one Crathorne being in Ireland - but who was he? Thomas was a popular name amongst the Crathornes at Crathorne at this time, with the main line in the hands of Thomas born about 1528, who married Everilda Constable in about 1549. Although they had a son Thomas, he died in childhood in 1558. And going back several generations, there appear no other Thomas's of the right age in Crathorne. However, the Lincolnshire Crathornes, which separated in 1420, also had many Thomas's in their line - but again none appear to be born in the right time frame. So Thomas the Younger now remains an enigma - as does his life in Ireland. Nearly 200 years later there were just four Crathorne marriages registered on the IGI, almost certainly from 4 different Crathorne lines judging by the spelling of their names and their locations. Fortunately the Irish Genealogy website http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie has some additional information. Walter Creathorn and Elizabeth had a son James, christened on 26 April 1755 at St Audeon's Church, Dublin, but must have sailed to London soon after, as their other children were all born and raised in Shoreditch. However it may have been his elder brother John Creathorn and his wife Mary whose daughter Catherine was baptised in Dublin on 11 May 1744. Possibly a son of theirs, another John Creathorn and his wife Charity were living at Patt (or Patrick) Street, Dublin, when they christened their children Martha on 26 August 1766, Tomas on 26 May 1768 and Mary on 16 October 1769. Earliest of all, a Mary Crathorn was baptised in Dublin on 8 September 1731. And these Dublin Creathorns must somehow be connected to the John Creathorn who was born in Monkstown, Dublin in about 1779, according to the IGI, marrying Catherine Kerwan there on 14 June 1804. This John was probably the same person that was a butcher, living at 53 New Street in the Dublin Directory of 1801, and was also a church warden at Monkstown Parish Church from 1810-1811, where the Creathorne family paid for pew no 81 in 1832. (From: A Glorious Extravaganza - The History of Monkstown Parish Church by Etain Murphy (Wordwell, 2003, ISBN 1869857.63.1, Thanks to Mike Orr.) So this was an Anglican family living in south Dublin in the early 19th Century... Then in Carlow, some 60
miles south-west of Dublin, Thomas Crathorn was born to parents Thomas
and Bridget on 25 May 1739, Mary Ann Creathorne married Robert Parke
on 15 September 1776, John Creathorn married Jane Tindel on 12 February
1793, an anonymous Creathorne was buried on 10 January 1789 and a John
Creathorne was buried on 2 February 1798. An interesting lease, dated 29 September 1759,
records an agreement between a
A little later, Geoffrey Crathorn Clayton born in Dublin 1825 to Benjamin Clayton and Eleanor (Creathorn?) and his presumed sister Ellen Creathorne Clayton, born in 1834, must have been somehow related to the earlier Dublin Creathorns. Ellen went on to be a magazine cartoonist, illustrator and writer, according to the Irish Comics Wiki Interestingly, the Chapters of Dublin website records that: "Creathorn was a respectable name long appearing among the commons and freemen of the butchers' guild." Looking at the other Crathornes in the original IGI line-up at the top of the page, and assuming that spellings were consistent, Thomas Crathorn and Hannah may have been the parents of Jeffrey who married Elizabeth Woodman on 1 February 1780, and they in turn may have been the parents of Thomas Crathorn who married Mary O'Toole on 11 February 1834, giving rise to up to 10 children in Baltinglass, County Wicklow. Where these children went is not currently known. Neither Mary Ann nor Hugh seem to have had any children, so their lines apparently died out. Last on the IGI list is the isolated family of Martin Craythorne and his wife Jane Hayes, who had 4 children in Cork in the 1870s and 1880s. All in all, the Irish Crathornes remain a mixture of connected and unconnected individuals - at least until someone does further research on them all! If you know more about your Crathorne relatives in Ireland, please click here
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