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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Kent) : probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place. There is a river Cray in Kent, named with Old Welsh crei ‘fresh’; craft may be Old English cræft ‘mill’.
  • John Craycroft came to MD in 1666 from Lincolnshire, England.

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