Guild of One-Name Studies

This is version 6.1 of the Craxford family tree - a family apparently originating in Gretton, Northamptonshire, England in the early 1600s. My sister Brenda drew up the first tentative tree some years ago but my interest was sparked when I found another Alan the same age as me and born only 40 miles away from my home town - and we did not even know of each other's existence! Alan's sister, Maureen, had also been similarly active in gathering data. Information to date has been collected laboriously from parish records and archives as well as web searches of the internet, Ancestry.com, findmypast.com, UK Census Collection (1851 - 1911), FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints database) and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site.

From a data management point of view this web site is the product of two separate software systems. The main database is held on a local computer using the genealogy package Legacy7. This is also where the articles are written and formatted and the photographic materials are processed. The family tree information is then transferred to a mainframe web server and this site is maintained using the TNG (The Next Generation) site building programme. You can see more of this on Page 5 on the Contents section. We started off, quite reasonably, documenting just our own immediate family and, because of the somewhat unusual nature of our name, were content to maintain the database as a single name project. After the site had been running for some months, and a certain amount of interest and notoriety had been generated, first one and then several other people and families wanted to get involved too.

MOST WANTED: A selection of individuals, families and photographs from our family tree for which our information is incomplete. Can you help us identify them or provide information which will overcome these deadends?

As our investigations have progressed we have become aware of other researchers digging through the same archives. Some we have liaised with and shared the fruits of our labours. Some indeed have set down their own trees where our branches have touched and interlinked. Our family tree does not stand in isolation. In this section we are pleased and proud to introduce our near neighbours in this forest. We are in collaboration, not competition, with each other. If you can't find what you are looking for in these pages please give them a try (and tell them who sent you!)

The first group use the same genealogy presentation software (TNG) as us. This gives us an added advantage as we can provide links direct to their search pages. You will find these within the left hand navigation bars of their relevant colour section. The second group contain links to other related trees. Most of these can be found in the Ancestry community. Some are open resources, some require a login account for which you will need to contact the co-ordinator.

THE ELIZABETH SMITH FAMILY GENEALOGY PAGES
(The RED pages) Main names here are Knight, Smith and Drinkwater - they are entangled with the Craxfords in Gretton and Rutland.

ANNE BROOKS' ANCESTRY
(The BLUE pages) Continue your explorations into the progenitors of the Nessworthys - the Nosworthy Family from Devon - back to their roots and across the Atlantic to Canada.

THE LISTON-SMITH GENEALOGY PAGES
(The OLIVE PAGES) Another tree rooted in the ancestry from Oakham and Barrowden, Rutland explores the Cotterill, Liston-Smith, Matkin Families.

FOSKETT GENEALOGY: The History of a Family
(The TEAL PAGES) Joseph Cook married Mary Ann Foskett (maternal side great great grandparents) in rural Buckinghamshire. This web site documents her ancestry and lines of descent.
Email: Sandra

CRANE POWELL: UK TO USA
(Ancestry) Our link is through Enos Jackson of Lincolnshire and Caroline Craxford of Gretton and spreads west to California.
Email: Alex

DAVID HARRINGTON FAMILY TREE
(Ancestry) This tree links to ours through Sarah Craxford and George Smith of Gretton. Over 6000 names from Harrington and beyond.
Email: David

THE HOBBS AND HOODS FROM KENT
(Ancestry) We find a large database of Hobbs and Hoods in the South East corner of England connected with and descended from Lizzie Alice Claypole of Cottingham, Northamptonshire.
Email: Len

THE LIQUORISH FAMILY
This is another tree centred on the villages of Gretton and Cottingham. It links to ours through William Liquorish and Lucy Craxford.
Email: Phil

to be expanded .....

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New cemeteries and headstone entries have been added for Northamptonshire (Cottingham, Rushden), Leicestershire (Leicester Gilroes, Wigston) and Rutland (Lyddington). Click the Cemeteries Index page here or the link in the left hand menu bar.

THE NEW CRAXFORD COAT OF ARMS After a long gestation period, we can proudly unveil this new coat of arms. The full story of its design and background can be found here: NO SUCH THING AS A CRAXFORD FAMILY COAT OF ARMS!

The latest three published articles are listed below. To see other recent additions click here for:
THE CONTENTS PAGE

The Family Magazine

We have now traced branches of the family around the country to Leicester, Birmingham, Warwickshire, London, South Wales, Lincolnshire and Tyneside; over the Atlantic to Canada and the States and recently to Australasia and South Africa. We hope to be able to connect up with all our cousins out there. I am pleased to be able to fill out to more branches closer to home with grateful thanks to Reg, Andrew, Philip , Thelma, John, Anne and Irene.

If you have any questions or comments about the information on this site, please contact us at either AlanCrax@aol.com or Newfloridian@hotmail.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you.

Newfloridian - Site Administrator
(Alan D. Craxford) December 10th 2009