Croft Family History
- Croft Name Meaning
- English: topographic name for someone who lived by an arable enclosure, normally adjoining a house, Middle English croft. There are several places in England named with this word (Old English croft), and the surname may equally be a habitational name from any of them. Possibly an Americanized spelling of Kraft.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,023,990 Historical Documents with Croft on Ancestry
- 330,335 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 240,753 Census and Voter Lists
- 23,879 Military Records
- 19,088 Immigration Records
- 409,935 Member Trees
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Number of Croft families
 759 - 1,516  254 - 758 |
 1 - 253  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Croft families
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13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Croft census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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