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Crathornes in London The first IGI Crathorne record for London is a very confusing entry for a Will of Roger Creythorne, dated 22 August 1515. This is also recorded as his marriage date, and listed for his son Anthony too! So if Roger was dying in 1515, with a wife and child, he could have been born any time around the 1450, give or take 20 years. This means he could have been a son of John Crathorne and Catherine Brigwell at Crathorne, or their son Ralph and his wife Isobel Mountford - but equally he could have come from an earlier unknown branch line. His arrival in London could be part of the Exodus from Crathorne, but all the other Crathornes moved to remote rural locations - not London. It seems that son Anthony then went on to have a family with 3 sons and a daughter, judging from the later marriage records of all four. And there the records become unclear, as there are few IGI records for London in the 1600s. It seems unlikely that all these Crathornes died out - more likely that records were lost or are not yet found. Because suddenly in the late 1600s there are two Crathorne marriages: William Crawthorne to Elizabeth Battes on 5 Jul 1679, and Thomas Crathorn to Elizabeth Sumpter on 28 November 1695. Thomas and Elizabeth could be the parents of another Thomas who married Ann Wharton on 16 July 1727... but whether he is the ancestor of the whole family of Cratherns that then grew up in Shoreditch is another question. If he was, their ancestry looks like this: The five Cratherns - David, John Brocks, William, Francis and Thomas - married and all but Thomas had children, so a thriving tribe of Shoreditch Cratherns developed. They were added to briefly by Walter Creathern from Ireland, whose family also grew up in Shoreditch before moving up to Staffordshire. David only had one child - David - with his first wife Sarah, and probably only one - Samuel - with his second wife Elizabeth. First son David went on to have 7 children with his wife Sarah Lee, and one of their grandsons - William, born 1829 - made the move back up North. William may well have sailed to Bishopwearmouth, County Durham (now a suburb of Sunderland) as in 1871 his occupation is given as Master Mariner. However he moved before he was 23 and then married twice, having 7 children with his second wife Elizabeth Venus. The children of Samuel stayed for generations in Shoreditch and Hoxton right through to the 1900s. John Brocks and Dorothy went on to have 9 children, at least 13 grandchildren, and later generations in Shoreditch, Greenwich, Lambeth, Bethnal Green and Edmonton, again through to the 1900s. William and Elizabeth had two daughters but no sons so no further Cratherns. Francis and Elizabeth had 5 children but no proven grandchildren. The Shoreditch Cratherns and Crathornes are still not fully resolved, and it will need further research to determine how they all fit together - and to prove where they link back to the ancestral Crathornes at Crathorne. If you know more about your Crathorne relatives, please click here
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