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CRAXFORD family in Huntingdon
« on: Saturday 23 December 06 09:36 GMT (UK) »
I am trying to place a family named Craxford with connections to Huntingdon. Robert first appears about 1760 and married Mary Cockerill at All Saints & St John in 1785 and had six daughters. Robert appears to have been a collector for the Assembly in Huntingdon (new release from records office) - last reference 1810. One daughter, Charlotte, has a son David Robert Stapleton Craxford in 1817 - and another son, Francis Cockerill Craxford (1814), who sentenced to be transported to Tasmania for seven years in 1834.
The Craxford family can be traced back to Gretton, Northamptonshire to 1619 but I have not been able to find references to Huntingdon before about 1760 or after about 1830. Any thoughts, suggestions or other ideas would be gratefully received.
Alan Craxford
Leicester / Northampton: Craxford,  Claypole, Pridmore, Pollard, Tansley, Crane, Tilley
Derby: Naylor, Ball, Haywood
Buckinghamshire: Cook
London: Craxford, Lane Crauford
Tyneside: Nessworthy, Simpson
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Re: CRAXFORD family in Huntingdon
« Reply #1 on: Friday 21 October 11 17:47 BST (UK) »
Although I am not related, the following should be of interest to you:-
Robert CRAXFORD was buried at All Saints & St John, Huntingdon on 30th April 1812, aged 56.
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Re: CRAXFORD family in Huntingdon
« Reply #2 on: Friday 21 October 11 18:55 BST (UK) »
Hi Victor
Many thanks.
Over the years we have slowly amassed little snippets of information about Robert and, although we have not conclusively attached him to the main trunk of our family tree, we have been able to write a short biography article about him and his family for our own web site.
If of interest it can be found here: The Craxfords of Huntingdon

Cheers Alan
Leicester / Northampton: Craxford,  Claypole, Pridmore, Pollard, Tansley, Crane, Tilley
Derby: Naylor, Ball, Haywood
Buckinghamshire: Cook
London: Craxford, Lane Crauford
Tyneside: Nessworthy, Simpson
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"I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent.
You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule."
  -  WS Gilbert (The Mikado)