Cranston Family History
Cranston Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place near Dalkeith named
Cranston, from the genitive case of the Old English byname Cran
meaning ‘crane’ + Old English tun ‘settlement’.
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Name Distribution of Cranston Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cranston families
 46 - 90  16 - 45 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cranston families
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72 - 141 25 - 71 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cranston families
|
130 - 257 44 - 129 |
1 - 43 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cranston census records
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Cranston Family Origin
Cranston Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Cranston
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Cranston Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Cranston census records
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Cranston Civil War Service Records
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