My understanding of the Crawford history is that the main line developed at Crawford (North of Moffet) and the lands and Earldom passed to the Lindseys through the marriage of the daughter when there was no surviving son. The ruins of that castle is at Crawford and is sometimes called the Lindsey Castle. Younger sons of earlier earls developed branches around Ayr of which Archnames (Killbirnie) was the larger line. In the 1750's this line married the daughter of the Earl of Crawford (a Lindsey) and the Earldom came back only to be lost in the next generation when there was not any living children. -- Andrew Crawford, 2785 IOE Dept., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 734 764-9410, Ascott Corp 734 663-2023 http://ascott.com/