Cranston Family History
Cranston Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place near Dalkeith named
Cranston, from the genitive case of the Old English byname Cran
meaning ‘crane’ + Old English tun ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cranston
Name Distribution of Cranston Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cranston families
 72 - 141  25 - 71 |
 1 - 24  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cranston families
|
130 - 257 44 - 129 |
1 - 43 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cranston census records
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Cranston Family Origin
Cranston Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cranston Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cranston Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cranston census records
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Military Service by Cranston
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