I am a member of a large Internet group researching all spellings of the surname Cra(y)cr(a)oft. Please be sure to visit our Craycraft Homepage (see link below) where we have posted hundreds of documents, photos and messages. Please email me with any and all questions on this family. Major surnames married into our line include: Bowell,Atkinson,Hunt,Warnock,Greenslate.
My maternal line includes Long, Lucas, and Taylor. My paternal side includes Jones.
The Craycraft line descends from England with the spelling as Cracroft. They can trace their ancestry back to 1050! The Cracrofts first appear in Hogsthorpe and later in Hackthorn where the Cracrofts still reside in Hackthorn Hall. John Cracroft and his wife Ann immigrated from Lincolnshire, England to the Americas ca 1665. My line descends from one Joseph Cracraft and his wife Ann who reportedly also came from Lincolnshire, England. We have been unable to determine where Joseph connects to the English Cracrofts.
Based upon DNA testing, of which I have been the coordinator, the results have proven that the following Cracraft, Craycraft, Cracroft and Craycroft lines share a common ancestor. Those lines include: Joseph2 (md. Margaret Bowel and Eunice Dawson); William (md. Sarah Bowel); Samuel (md. Elizabeth Unknown); John (Cracroft) Creacroft (md. Ann). John and Ann arrived here in 1665 from Lincolnshire, England and settled in MD. We have also proven, through DNA testing, that our DNA matches that of the English Cracrofts from which we all descend.
Peter Kenneth Cracroft, of England, kindly submitted his DNA. He can trace his genealogy back to the 1200's and earlier. This is documented in Burke's Landed Gentry.
See the "Related Files" section of this page for a complete report on our DNA results. It is entitled: "Our Ancestry Through DNA Analysis".
2/5/2002
updated 4/8/2005
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- Reuben Craycraft (31 KB)
Reuben Craycraft and wife Barbara Ann Greenslate
- Mary Ann Lucas Long and her sisters. (14 KB)
Eunice (top left), Mary Ann (top right) and Millie Lucas (seated). Children of Jacob Lucas and Julia Rice.
- Ernest A. Long (16 KB)
Ernest A. Long was my maternal grandfather. Born 1890, died 1961. Wife Lena Taylor, daughter of Bill Taylor and Rose Dyre. Their daughter, Catherine Geneva Long was my mother and married Donald Brant Craycraft.
- Portsmouth, Ohio (24 KB)
The home of many Craycraft ancestors since the early 1800's and incidentally my birthplace.
- Lady Rhona Cracroft-Amcotts (117 KB)
The Lady of the Hackthorn Hall kindly wrote to me after my visit in 1989. Sadly, she has since passed away. She offered me every courtesy during my visit and allowed me to take these posted pictures.
- A Craycraft Reunion Sept. 2000 (32 KB)
This photo spans several generations of Craycrafts. All descendants of Charles Abner Craycraft. Raymond Lloyd, son of Charles, is the oldest living direct descendant of Charles. The rest of the people in this photo are nieces and nephews and grandchildren of Charles and his sons.
This may well be the last time the present generation of this line will be able to get together. The photo was taken in Friendship, OH
- Hezekiah Morton Jones (12 KB)
Hezekiah Morton Jones was my paternal great grandfather.Born 1855, died 1924. His father, Thomas Wylie Jones was born ca 1831, died 1908. Hezekiah's daughter, Katherine Brant Jones was my grandmother. Born 1893, died 1976.
- Cracroft Manor-Hackthorn, England (66 KB)
This land has been the home of the Cracroft family since the early 1600's. This is the current Cracroft Manor. St.Michael's church can be see on the right.
- Hackthorn Hall ca 1790 (18 KB)
This is the postcard photo given to me by Lady Rhona Cracroft-Amcotts. See her letter posted here.
- Dan L. Craycraft and wife Barbara Gail Hendricks (198 KB)
Picture of website owner and wife 12/2000
- Dora Bell McNeal and Katherine Brant Jones (11 KB)
Dora Bell McNeal is my great grandmother and mother of Katherine Brant Jones. Dora was born 1855, died 1917. She married Hezekiah Morton Jones in 1877. Dora's was the daughter of Thomas McNeal and Elizabeth Jane Montgomery.
- Hackthorn Village and Hall Inksketch (148 KB)
This sketch was taken from a pamphlet on Hackthorn. The sketch is of Hackthorn ca 1792 by Edmund Cracroft. Hackthorn Hall and St. Michael's church can be seen on the far left of the sketch.
- Craycraft Annual Family Reunion 2004 (109 KB)
This is the 18th annual reunion held in Friendship, Ohio
- Grandmother Kate Brant Jones and relatives (24 KB)
Top picture (left to right): Nellie Spence Craycraft/Lester Vernon Craycraft/Kate Brant Jones. Bottom picture: Nellie/Mary Elizabeth Alexander (Lester's wife)/Kate. All taken Oct 1963 in Riverside, CA
- Donald Brant Craycraft and Catherine Geneva Long (19 KB)
Donald Brant Craycraft, son of Charles Abner Craycraft and Catherine Brant Jones with wife Catherine Geneva Long, daughter of Ernest A. Long and Lena Taylor with son Dannie Lee Craycraft. Taken ca 1942 in Portsmouth, OH.
- Cracroft/Amcotts Arms (40 KB)
This photo is a closeup of a stained glass window in St. Michael's church depicting the "quartering" of the Cracrofts and the Amcotts Arms and Shield.
The Cracroft Shield with the Stork Proud and the Amcotts with the Squirrel, the Arms with Cracrofts upper right and lower left, the Amcotts with upper left/lower right- from Burke's Landed Gentry.
- Guy Long and wife Mary Elles Randall (16 KB)
Guy was the son of George Meloin Long and Mary Ann Lucas. He moved to Bureau, Illinois where he settled and died.
- Mary Ellen (Morgan) Craycraft ca 1915 (26 KB)
Mary Ellen Morgan, my great-grandmother married Willaim Harrison (Harry) Craycraft 1/2/1876. She lived 5/20/1859-11/23/1924. Harry lived 7/20/1854-8/21/1915. They are both buried together in Siloam,KY MacKoy Cem.
- Group photo: mother's family (13 KB)
This is a group photo of Threasa Ann Taylor Nichols-sister of my grandmother, Catherine Geneva Long Craycraft-my mother, grandmother Lena Taylor Long and my father Donald Brant Craycraft. Cleveland, OH-early 1950's.
- Charles K. Long and wife (unknown) (11 KB)
Charles was the eldest son of George Meloin Long and Mary Ann Lucas. He had a daugther Grace Long.
- St. Michael's Church, Hackthorn, Lincolnshire (17 KB)
This is a picture of St. Michael's church which stands on the Cracroft lands next to Hackthorn Hall. Many Cracroft's are buried next to the church and at least two in the church.
- Donald Brant Craycraft Family (296 KB)
This is the Craycraft Family taken in Tyler, TX with his children, grandchildren and spouses.
- Resource books on Craycrofts (pg. 1) (141 KB)
Sister Mary Louise Donnelly has written an excellent book on the genealogy of the descendants of John&Ann Cracroft. Arrived MD from England ca 1666. This is pg. 1 of a list of her books. This list also contains many hundreds of other surnames she has covered.
- Ernest A. Long as a young man (10 KB)
Ernest is perhaps 30 in this photo.
- Mary Ann Lucas Long (14 KB)
My great grandmother was born 1851, died 1931. She was the daughter of Jacob Lucas and Julia Rice. Her line supposedly descends from Govenor Robert Lucas of Ohio. The Lucas family were also early settlers of the Scioto Valley.
- Resource books on Craycrofts (pg. 2) (111 KB)
This is page 2 of the book list.
- Mary Ann Lucas (12 KB)
Mary Ann was the daughter of Jacob and Julia Ann Rice.
- Hackthorn Hall "out buildings" (18 KB)
This is an example of some of the buildings on the grounds of Hackthorn Hall.
- George Meloin Long (23 KB)
The Longs were early settlers of the Scioto Valley, OH. My Great grandfather, George Meloin Long was a descendant of these early settlers. Born 1846, died 1907.
- Dan L Craycraft SAR Certificate (27 KB)
Sons of the American Revolution.
- Hackthorn Hall ancestor paintings (72 KB)
These are just of the paintings hanging in Hackthorn Hall.
- The Taylor Family (19 KB)
Dewey S. Taylor, brother of Lena Taylor, his wife Wilma Mae Miller(far left)and Lena (far right). Children of Lena Taylor Long: Eunice and Catherine Long. ca 1930.
- St. Mary's Church of Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire (13 KB)
Hogsthorpe is the earliest known home of the Cracrofts of England. It is believed they lived there as early as the 1200's.
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