Crabtree

Crabtree One-Name Study

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Study details

Study: Crabtree

Variants: Crabtre, Crabtry, Crabtrye, Krabtree

Category: 1 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is in its early stages.

Website: www.crabtreefamilyhistory.ca

DNA website: www.familytreedna.com/public/Crabtree

Contact: Mr Peter Crabtree

About the study

This is a one-name study of the CRABTREE surname and its variants (although most of those had disappeared by the early 1700s).

Variant names

Crabtre, Crabtrye, Crabbtree, Crabtrie

Name origin

CRABTREE is a place name that originated in Sowerbyshire in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It means 'dweller by the wild apple tree'. The first appearance of the surname in this form in a document occurred in the late 1300s.

Distribution of the name

Following its first appearance in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the late 1300s, the surname had spread to the eastern parts of Lancashire by the 1500s. By the 1800s, there were still three times as many Crabtrees in Yorkshire as in Lancashire, and three times as many in Lancashire as in the rest of England and Wales combined.

Data

Extensive extractions have been made from parish registers, manorial and other documents, and civil records, from the 1500s to the present day.

DNA

My first steps towards a Crabtree DNA project have been taken in November 2007. The details of the project may be found at https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Crabtree.

Links

My webpage may be found at www.crabtreefamilyhistory.ca. My book entitled 'CRABTREE - Dweller by the Wild Apple Tree' may be obtained by writing to me at peter.crabtree@one-name.org. Details of the book's contents are described on the webpage.

Contact Details

Mr Peter Crabtree

General Search Results

Occurrences of the surname Crabtree in the Guild Indexes

(Click on the number to view the search results in each index. Indexes marked by * are only accessible by logged in Guild members.)

Global Marriages (public) 3260
Global Marriages (members)* 3268
Inscriptions Index 4
Modern Newspaper Index 2
Probate Index* 10
Datastores 2
Study materials for the study Crabtree* 1
References to the name Crabtree in the Guild Journal 1

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