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Crathornes in Yorkshire, before 1600 Yorkshire is the home of all Crathornes, going back to Sir William de Crathorne, born in about 1290AD, who was knighted in 1327 and died at the battle of Neville's Cross in 1346. His story, and an overview of the Crathornes at Crathorne, is given in the Genesis page.William apparently married twice, with 4 children by his first wife Margaret Russell, and a son Matthew by his second wife Isobel Clervaulx. The birth dates below are simply estimates, based on when Sir William was alive. There's a theory that Isobel was his only wife, but there is also a story whereby the Crathorne line goes back to William the Conqueror, with a Humphrey Crathorne of Baynard. However, this website is sticking with Sir William as being the first Crathorne, with the family tree below the most probable version of his wives and children.
Sir William's son William became a Dominican Friar, lecturing at Oxford University in the years 1330-32, the date being confirmed through a passage in which he mentions an eclipse that we now know occurred on July 16, 1330. He would only have been about 20 or so at the time, so clearly he was a man of considerable knowledge and education. There's much more about his philosophy at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy website and in Wikipedia. Apparently his philosophy focused mainly upon epistemology and the problem of knowledge... so now you know! William's brother John was a bower, and Freeman of York in 1377 whilst brother Nicholas was a mercer, also a Freeman of York. So clearly the family was well connected and wealthy at this time. The grand-children we know of are those of Matthew and his wife, as he inherited the estate, but Nicholas and Anne Lascelles had a son John and there may have been other children too... Matthew was an Accountant to Edward III in Devon silver mines in 1377, with son Thomas and grandson Brian continuing the Crathorne line. Another of his grandsons - Thomas - first moved the Crathorne line out of Yorkshire when he married into the Dallinson line in Lincolnshire in about 1420. There's more about them on the Lincolnshire page.
Thomas and Alice had only two children, Ralph the eldest died at about 20, so his brother James inherited the estate. He married Elizabeth Sayer, and the couple had at least nine children, including three sons - George, John and Peter - about whom we know very little. In his will left £4 a year for a priest to sing mass for his father, mother and brother Ralph, his godfathers and godmother and himself, "with all his elders' soules that Almightie God wolde have prayde for". Son Thomas and Everilda Constable continued the line at Crathorne, while his sisters married men in Yorkshire, County Durham and Cleveland and brother Ralph married Catherine Woodnet from Surrey. They certainly moved around quite a lot as a family!
Thomas
and Everilda had seven children, with their first-born Ralph
inheriting the estate. He had five children with his first wife
Jane Strangeways of Ormesby, Cleveland, then a further seven with his
second wife Bridget Yaxley of Yaxley in Sussex. It seems as though
most if not all of Ralph and Jane's children died in childhood, as the
estate was then inherited by Thomas, the second son of Ralph and
Bridget. Two of Thomas & Everilda's other sons - Robert and
another Thomas - died as babies, but sons William and Matthew, together
with daughters Katherine and Mary, all survived childhood to grow up and
marry. William and Ursula Fairfax seem to have had no children,
but Matthew and Margaret Hutton had six. One of these could
have been the John who married in Leake, Yorkshire, in about
1600, with sons Thomas christened on 30 August 1600 and Richard
in August 1605.
On
to Yorkshire
Crathornes from 1600
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