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Marriage: Children:
  1. Julia Loomis Crawford: Birth: 19 NOV 1901 in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Death: 7 JAN 1986 in Albany, Dougherty Co., Georgia

  2. Estelle Crawford: Birth: 11 JUN 1903 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pennsylvania. Death: 4 DEC 1987 in Albany, Dougherty Co., Georgia


Sources
1. Title:   Web: Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, Marriage Index, 1850-2010
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
2. Title:   1920 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1920; Census Place: Norristown Ward 6, Montgomery, Pennsylvania; Roll: T625_1604; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 141; Image: 886
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
3. Title:   U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;
4. Title:   1930 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1930; Census Place: Norristown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania; Roll: 2083; Page: 19B; Enumeration District: 0104; Image: 811.0; FHL microfilm: 2341817
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;

Notes
a. Note:   He suffered a heart attack while on vacation at the shore in Ventnor, NJ. ------------------------------------------- (The source of the following xeroxed clipping is not indicated.) History of Your Name -------- No, 740 CRAWFORD RACIAL ORIGIN -- Scottish. SOURCE -- A locality. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a family name which surely sounds English, but it is distinctly Scottish. It is place name, and one derived from Gaelic instead of Saxon words, its present ending "ford" representing merely the influence of English speeches through a number of centuries and the confusion between the word "ford" and a Gaelic word of similar sound. In reality the place name signifies "bloody pass." How it came to bear that name is an episode on which available history sheds no definite light, though it is logical to assume that it must have been the scene of at least one desperate encounter. Among the Scots the name of Crawford is borne principally by those tracing their ancestry back to the Clan Lindsay. There are those among the Scottish historians who do not admit this combination of the words "cru" and clan into the classifacation of the Highland clans, since its first chiefs were of Norman origin. Yet, its holdings were on the edge of the Highlands, it played an important part in the history of the Highlands, and there can be no doubt that while its leaders were originally of Norman extraction the bulk of its membership represented Gaelic blood. The name is explained as a "ford." --------------------------------- -- CRAWFORD Source: Bain, Robert *The Clans and Tartans of Scotland*. London & Glasgow, 1938, rev. 1964. The Crawford clan is entitled to the Lindsay tartan and the Lindsay coat of arms. Spelled Craufurd on the map. Located north of Kennedy on the *Scotland of Old* map. Lindsay: Crest Badge: A swan rising from a coronet, proper. Gaelic Name: McGhille Fhronntaig. -- William, grandson of the first mentioned Lindsay of Ercildon, acquired the property of Crawford in Lanarkshire and married the daughter of Henry, Prince of Scotland. Several generations later his descendant Sir David Lindsay of Glenesk was created Earl of Crawford in 1398. He married a daughter of Robert II, and recieved with her the Barony of Strathnairn, in Invernessshire. He was a brave and chivalrous knight and narrowly escaped death with fighting the forces under the "Wolf of Badenoch". He died in 1407. Bitter feuds existed between the Lindsays and the Ogilvies and Alexander 4th Earl, known as Earl Beardie, was severely defeated by the Earl of Huntly in 1452, deprived of all his lands, titles & offices, but after a reconciliation he was pardoned, and died in 1454. His son, David, 5th Earl, was created Duke of Montrose by James III in 1488, the first instance of a Dukedom being conferred on a Scotsman not of the Royal family. This Dukedom ended with his death in 1495. Later Earls of Crawford were intimately concerned in feuds and rebellions in Scotland, and military service abroad. John, 1st Earl of Lindsay assumed the title of Earl of Crawford in 1644. In 1848 the House of Lords decided that the titles of the Earl of Crawford and the Earl of Lindsay belonged to James, 7th Earl of Balcarres, who thus became the 24th Earl of Crawford. Origin of Lindsay name: probably Norman. Plant = Rue, and Lime tree.


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