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"Originally, the name, ""Crawford,"" identified an actual place in Lanarkshire, Scotland, ""where the Clyde River winds down through the high moors of a marshy valley toward the Irish Sea."" Clydesdale horses were bred on farms famous for their orchards and most of the land was valualble only for its minerals of coal and lead. ""There, where the sandy gravel of the Clyde formed a shallow firm bottom for the river ...where the crows wheeled in the empty air over the open heather that stretched away toward the mountains, there the Crawford family began."" Johannes Crawford was the lord of the fief of Crawford and the earliest anscestor of the Crawford name.In the year 1140 he took as his own name that of the lands he held as a feudal baron. His decendents did the same. Sir Reginald de Crawford was the sheriff of Ayreshire in 1294. His sons founded the several branches of the Crawford family.(Dismukes 4). Sir David Lindsay became the first Earl of Crawford in 1398, and the coat of arms above derives from this period.
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