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Crathornes
in Northamptonshire John Cawthorne’s marriage to Prudence Bull at St John the Baptist Church, Peterborough, on 3 July 1581 marks the first Crathorne event registered in the IGI in Northamptonshire, and may be part of the Crathorne Exodus. Where John came from is uncertain, but he’s the right age to be a grandson of John, one of the younger sons of James Crathorne and Elizabeth Sayer, who married at Crathorne in about 1520. There again, he could be from an older branch of the Yorkshire line: at this stage we simply don't know. John and Prudence gave rise to a thriving family of Crawthorns/Cawthorns in Peterborough, with Grandson John born 1628 having only 1 son on the IGI. However a generation later there are more Crawthorns cropping up at Stamford Baron St Martin, just a few miles away, so it seems quite possible that there is a direct link to them Two generations after Joseph and John were born at Stamford, there were Crawthorn families at Barnswell, Kings Cliffe and Lutton - all only a few miles away from Stamford and Peterborough. In all 19 Crawthornes were born in these villages between 1815 and 1850. Again there's no proven link between these generations yet - more record office searches are needed. And a complicating factor is that some of these villages were in Huntingdonshire for some of this time. Most of the Crawthorns stayed in the area, some moving to Oundle and Peterborough, but one of them moved further away. Thomas Craythorn, born in Lutton 1816, married local girl Elizabeth Marshall and the pair had 8 children. Sadly four died in early childhood, but the remaining family emigrated to Australia in about 1854, where they had a further two children. Thomas's distant cousin Sarah, born in 1828 in Kings Cliffe, also emigrated to Australia with her husband John Palmer. If you know more about your Crathorne relatives, please click here
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