Crane Family History
Crane Name Meaning
English: nickname, most likely for a tall, thin man with long
legs, from Middle English cran ‘crane’ (the bird), Old English
cran, cron. The term included the heron until the
introduction of a separate word for the latter in the 14th century.Dutch: variant spelling of Krane.English
translation of German Krahn or Kranich.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Crane
Name Distribution of Crane Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Crane families
 623 - 1,243  208 - 622 |
 1 - 207  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Crane families
|
28 - 53 10 - 27 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Crane census records
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Crane Family Origin
Crane Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Crane Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Crane Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Crane census records
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Military Service by Crane
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