Looking for family

[Annemarie Harrison]

My maiden name is Calcraft,my parents started the journey and I have gone on
My dad found out we are related to William Calcraft the executioner in the 1800s,also I have family in Australia  as well,plus I have found out on my moms side we are vikings
But I'm looking for more Calcrafts as I know we are all related,and I have found a archive that back when our name Calcraft started,Calcraft  was spelled Chalkcraft,which means witchcraft or studier of the craft,I cant remember  where I found it,but the Calcrafts stemmed from  Normandy France and that's where my dad stopped his search but I have tried to continue, I would love to find more family!

[pinefamily]

Hello Annemarie, and welcome to Rootschat.
If you are after some help from the very clever and helpful folk on here, you need to put what information you are after, and what you already know. That way, people won't dig up what you already have.
What area in the UK is your family from?

[Jackiemh]

Welcome to this site.
If you have a look at 'your tools' at the base of this page, you will find surname interests. By clicking on this you can search for other rootschatters who are interested in  your surname(s).
You never know what you might find on this forum.
Jackie

[chempat]

Some background on William, the executioner:

https://theramblingsofadisusedmind.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/william-calcraft-executioner/

Added:
I did not read it all before I posted, seemed factual account, but then got to:
'From a paranormal perspective our team has been unlucky enough to encounter him on a number of occasions at different locations.'

Lots of information on Ancestry, National Biography, etc etc about him and in lots of trees.

Also:
By 1869 Calcraft's mother, Sarah, was living as a pauper in a workhouse at Hatfield Peverel near Chelmsford. Calcraft was ordered to pay 3 shillings a week towards her upkeep, to which he objected, arguing that his brother and sister should be made to help, and that he had three children of his own to support, although there is no record of his marriage.

[chempat]

This is how Ancestry has them in Shoreditch in 1841

William Caleroft   40  Boot and shoemaker.
Louisa Caleroft   40
William Caleroft   14
James Caleroft   17

[garstonite]

William ANG Calcraft was baptised in the Independent church of Little Baddow on 12th November 1800 .parents were William and Sarah - on www.familysearch.org
www.geneanet.org has Sarah as Sarah Ong as maiden name - so - one of them is wrong .
But
there is another Sarah ONG from Little Baddow in the 1841 census - so it would suggest her name was SARAH ONG ??
found them ...
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDW-LYRY

William Calcraft from Little Baddow / Sarah Ong from Witham
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Chempat - you posted as I was searching - do you think Louisa may be a second wife ??  the christening of Willam definitely has Sarah as mother
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NYT8-37N
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ADDED - Witham is wrongly mistranscribed - the ONG family are from WOODHAM ,ESSEX

[chempat]

garstonite - I might also have edited, if so, sorry.  Are you mixing up the generations?

I think I am not going to investigate any more of family until Annemarie tells us who William's ancestors are, with dates etc.

Added:
However, one tree stops at John Calcraft about 1748, married Sarah Rudd in 1768 in Christchurch, Spitalfields.
Another at William Calcraft about 1737 and Hannah Elles, married 1759 in Little Baddow.

[chempat]

This suggests the surname is not necessarily French:

https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Calcraft

e.g. 'This interesting name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and can be either a topographical or a locational surname...'

[sarah]

Hello Anne Marie,

If you put "calcraft" into the search box of RootsChat it will also show you the other 18 topics on calcrafts

Regards

Sarah