Crawley Family History
Crawley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places called
Crawley, named with Old English crawe ‘crow’ +
leah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Crowley.Probably also a reduced form of Irish McCrawley, an
Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Raghallaigh ‘son of
Raghallach’, also Anglicized as Magreely.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Crawley
Name Distribution of Crawley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Crawley families
 744 - 1,486  249 - 743 |
 1 - 248  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Crawley families
|
53 - 103 18 - 52 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Crawley census records
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Crawley Family Origin
Crawley Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Crawley Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Crawley families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Crawley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Crawley census records
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Military Service by Crawley
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