Crabtree One-Name Study

Crabtree
One-Name Study

Topics

About the Crabtree One-Name Study
Variants
Origin of the surname
Distribution of the name
Data
DNA project
Links
Contact Details

About the Crabtree One-Name Study

This is a one-name study of the CRABTREE surname and its variants (although most of those had disappeared by the early 1700s).

Variants

Crabtre, Crabtrye, Crabbtree, Crabtrie

Origin of the surname

CRABTREE is a place name that originated in Sowerbyshire in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It means 'dweller by the wild apple tree'. The first appearance of the surname in this form in a document occurred in the late 1300s.

Distribution of the name

Following its first appearance in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the late 1300s, the surname had spread to the eastern parts of Lancashire by the 1500s. By the 1800s, there were still three times as many Crabtrees in Yorkshire as in Lancashire, and three times as many in Lancashire as in the rest of England and Wales combined.

Data

Extensive extractions have been made from parish registers, manorial and other documents, and civil records, from the 1500s to the present day.

DNA project

My first steps towards a Crabtree DNA project have been taken in November 2007. The details of the project may be found at http://www.familytreedna.com/name_search.aspx. Enter 'Crabtree' in the surname box, and click to enter.

Links

My webpage may be found at www.crabtreefamilyhistory.ca.

My book entitled 'CRABTREE - Dweller by the Wild Apple Tree' may be obtained by writing to me at peter.crabtre@one-name.org.

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mr Peter J Crabtree
E-mail:

This page last updated 25 February 2008.