Hi Just a word that feedback of the following pages has been quite active with feedback that may be relevant to the mailing list. http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/cranswick_clan/ http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/cranswick_clan/huttoncranswick.html Including the latest. Would have forwarded more on but have been on the move quite a bit. Time willing, corrections, additions, etc can be made to the page. Lachlan. ===== From: Richard Broughton Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 14:57:28 +0000 To: [email protected] Subject: origin on the name Cranswick Hi Just saw your website and the discussion on the origin of the name Hutton Cranswick, East Yorkshire. I didn't have time to read the whole lot so you may already know this, but in John Mather's 'Birds of Yorkshire' (1986) he supports the idea of Cranswick being so named because the Common Crane (Grus grus) used to breed there. As one of the folks said on your website, Cranes are very rare in the UK, but that wasn't always the case! Cranes used to breed commonly in Britain until about the 17th or 18th Century. They almost certainly bred at Cranswick because until about 1800 the whole place was one massive broken marsh that extended from north of Hull to Bridlington, on the coast. Cranes nest in marshes, and there are records for feasts at places in that area (Scorborough, I think, was one, maybe Leconfield too) that included Cranes on the menu (this was about 16th Century) so they must have been available locally. The fact that the coat of arms is a Crane seems to be the icing on the cake - I'd say Cranswick is a derived from Crane's Wick, with Wick being some term meaning a 'place' of some sort. The name was probably gievn to several places around the UK where Cranes were found that aren't necessarily related (hence the Scottish element). Anyway, my name's not Cranswick so I'll stop interfering! I got to your site from a search on Google for 'wildfowl' and 'Hull'! (I'm reasearching the birds of Hull). cheers R Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Geosciences - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University PO Box 1000, 61 Route 9W Palisades, New York 10964-1000 USA E-mail: [email protected] WWW: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu CCP14 Xtal Software Website: http://www.ccp14.ac.uk