Craven Family History
Craven Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Crabháin
(County Galway) or Mac Crabháin (Louth, Monaghan)
‘descendant (or ‘son’) of Crabhán’.English:
regional name from the district of West Yorkshire so called, which is
probably ‘garlic place’, from a British word, the ancestor of Welsh
craf ‘garlic’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Craven
Name Distribution of Craven Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Craven families
 1,637 - 3,272  546 - 1,636 |
 1 - 545  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Craven families
|
25 - 47 9 - 24 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Craven census records
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Craven Family Origin
Craven Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Craven Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Craven Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Craven census records
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Military Service by Craven
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