Life History

Notes

• I have come to the current information about this person in threestages.  First there was a line that just ended with the name of JohnCrawford's father as "Earl Crawford."  Sources I had seen at thatpoint were not clear if this man's given name is Earl, or if this isthe title.
  
  Records indicate that the Crawford family held the title of Earl ofGlencairn, but I have not probed details.  The line of Crawfords weare looking at here, whose descendant Judith Crawford later marriedJoseph Terry in Virginia, appear to be from the family of the Earls ofGlencairn.  The lines of descent are a bit confused in the sources Ihave found (as of October 2008) so I have not yet included all thedetails here.
  
  There is some uncertainty, since some researchers have tried toconnect our John Crawford (who emigrated to the colonies) to the Earlof Crawford.  But the Earldom of Crawford was a title of the Lindsayfamily from the time of its creation in 1398.  David Lindsay wascreated Earl of Crawford in 1398.  The title remained in Lindsay handsthrough the time when John Crawford was born around 1900.
  
  It is possible that the Crawford line in the colonies with which weare concerned was from a younger son of the Earl of Crawford, who usedthe name of the Earldom of his family as the surname in the New World. A second possibility is that this was a member of the Crawfordfamily, also as yet unidentified, whose family held the Earldom ofGlencairn referred to above.
  
  In early July 2009 I found a genealogy that gave the name of John'sfather as Malcolm, born in about 1570 n Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, Scotland. This genealogy traces the family line back several generationsearlier, to an earlier Malcolm.  There is no mention of an Earl.
  --  Descendants of Malcolm Crawford,http://www.keenekreations.net/genealogy/crawford.html#721C
  
  A few hours later I found a further genealogy, again with good detail,that reported another generation in that sequence.  The father of Johnwas another John, born in 1778, whose father was Malcolm.  Thisgenealogy reported Malcolm's birth date as 1551.  This one also tracesthe line farther back consistently.
  
  I did tie this line to the Earls of Crawford, of the family nameLindsay, in Ayrshire.  One personage of that early line was:
  Sir John de CRAUFORD of Ardoch (1st of Craufurdland), Born:  abt. 1222   Died:  abt. 1295.
  John was married to Alicia of DALSALLOCK
  --  http://fabpedigree.com/s092/f005120.htm
  
  This line is also reported back by others.  I found Sir John of Ardochin the Salzar genealogy, which I have cited in several instances:
  Sir John de Crawford, Born Abt 1222 in Clydesdale, Lanarkshire,Scotland,
  Died 1295 in Clydesdale, Lanarkshire, Scotland; married 1252 inClydesdale, Lanarkshire, Scotland to Alicia (de) Dalsallock (Born Abt1225 in Scotland, United Kingdom)
  --  http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/8170547/person/-926708620

Sources

• 1. Ancestry Trees
  • Shoup,
• 2. Crawfords in Salzar Family
  • http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/8170547/family/familygroup
• 3. Descendants of Malcolm Crawford
  • http://www.keenekreations.net/genealogy/crawford.html#721C
• 4. Ancestry Trees
  • Blust-Reed,