I am researching a branch of the Cranston clan that I am reasonably sure was from Ireland. I have had to use conjecture to some extent but what I am searching for is the link between Ireland and Wales. My 4 times great grandfather was a journeyman mason named William Cranston who was born around 1824. I found a William Cranston, listed as a Mason from Ireland, in the 1851 census living in Knarsdale, Northumberland, England. There are very few Cranston's in Wales but my ancestor then shows up in 1856 in Glamorgan Wales, married to Margaret McKiverigan, and listed as a mason on the birth certificate of my 3 times great grandfather (also William Cranston) who was born in 1856. My 4 time great grandfather William died in 1859 of Phithisis. My 3 times great grandfather also married an Irish woman in Wales and was married in the Catholic church which leads me to believe that the family was Catholic at one point and I thought that might help in determining where they may ha! ve lived in Ireland. Any help I can get I would appreciate. Laura