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