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Crathornes in Leicestershire & Rutland Robert Crathorne’s marriage to Elizabeth Adcock at Melton Mowbray on 8 February 1556 marks the first Crathorne event registered in Leicestershire, and seems to be part of the Crathorne Exodus. Where he came from is unknown, but he’s the right age to be a son of James Crathorne and Elizabeth Sayer, who married at Crathorne in about 1520. Equally there were two Roberts earlier in the Crathorne line – in about 1415 and about 1456 – so either of these could be could have been his ancestor. Robert and Elizabeth seem to have had no children, unless the Richard Crowthorn who married Joan at Tugby in about 1611 is somehow related, so this line appears to have died out. The next Crathorne invasion came from the west, when Thomas (born in 1654 in Kingsbury, Warwickshire) married Sarah Orton at Twycross. Their son Thomas married a Mary, but she unfortunately died not long after their first child John was born. Thomas then remarried Catherine Smith, christening their first son Avery and so confirming the link back to Warwickshire and all the other Avery Crathornes.
It’s here we have a couple of assumptions, as there are as yet no children found recorded to Avery and his wife Mary Iliffe, who married about 1761 at Cottingham (B below). However, just down the road at Great Easton (C) a John Creythorne married Ann and had 10 children before being buried there in 1851. And just down the road the other way an Avery Crathorn and his wife Ruth had 8 more children at Great Bowden (A). Given the timing of these events and the proximity of the villages, it seems quite likely that John and Avery were children of Avery and Mary. John’s clan developed at Great Easton over 4 generations, with children born in the village into the 1900s. His son William, born at Great Easton, Leicestershire in September 1817 could be the one who emigrated to New Zealand in 1857, but this is not yet proved. In contrast Avery’s clan only stayed at Great Bowden for one generation, with his descendants moving into Leicester and to London. By the industrial revolution other Crathornes moved into Leicestershire - and as yet they are not all sorted out! If you know more about your Crathorne relatives, please click here
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