It seems so many Crawfords have stone walls!!  I'm looking for the same ones in Chester, S.C. that Rob Edwards is looking for!  We can't seem to go beyond the one born in 1799 - don't have any clue where he was born or how he got to Chester! Louise ----- Original Message ----- From: docrawdad@mindspring.com To: crawford@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 6:14:50 PM Subject: Re: [CRAWFORD] Research concerning early Crawfords in South Carolina I have a James Crawford circ 1819 in Marion county, SC which is my stone wall...  He was married to a Mary Pounds and lived in 1850's in Girard, AL.  I have ther remaining family tree, just looking for my stone wall.   thanks, doc -----Original Message----- >From: Debbie Roland <calmus@oburg.net> >Sent: Oct 23, 2011 4:27 PM >To: crawford@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [CRAWFORD] Research concerning early Crawfords in South Carolina > >I will write to you tomorrow. Our Crawford line is in North Carolina or >South Carolina. Crawford women married a Ellerbe. >Debbie >On 10/22/2011 5:12 PM, Dale M Crawford wrote: >> The earliest Crawford in my line that I have identified is Thomas Crawford, >> who lived near what is now Georgetown, South Carolina in the 1740s and >> 1750s.  Some published material identifies the parents of this Thomas >> Crawford as John Crawford and Mary Duke of Hanover County, Virginia.  This >> linkage is also repeated as correct by Ancestry.com and in the Mormon church >> records.  I have never believed that this John and Mary were the parents >> because John's birth year was given as 1737, which makes him too young to be >> the father of a man with an 11 year old child in 1753, which Thomas Crawford >> was. >> >> I have some material, written and researched by Helen Imrey, that comes to >> the same conclusion as I do but from a different direction, by meticulously >> studying the land records around Georgetown.  She identifies three different >> and distinct Crawford families, one of which is my ancestor Thomas Crawford, >> and another of which is the family of John and Mary Duke Crawford.  While >> there may be some connection, which I doubt, between my Thomas and this John >> and Mary, it is not that of parent and child.  The family of John Crawford >> of Hanover County, Virginia, is a prominent, well-documented family and I >> don't think that Thomas was closely related to that family. >> >> In any event, I thought this well-written and -researched material might be >> of interest to some of you on this list.  I will be happy to send this >> material in a Word document to anyone who is interested (it is too large to >> circulate via Rootsweb) if you send me your direct email address.  In >> particular, if any of you are researching my Thomas Crawford, I would very >> much appreciate hearing from you. >> >> >> Dale M Crawford >> dalemcrawford@comcast.net >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CRAWFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CRAWFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message   ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CRAWFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message