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Where did the French Cray family come from? What is the French Cray family crest and coat of arms? When did the Cray family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Cray family history?
The surname Cray is a topographic surname, which was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties. As a general rule, the greater the distance between an individual and their homeland, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, a person who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original village, while people who migrated to a different country were often known by the name of a region or country from which they came. The name Cray is derived from the Old French word "creste," meaning the peak of a hill and indicated that the original bearer lived at or near such a place.
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Please remember that this page is only a small extract of our complete history that includes: - Ancient origin of the name (usually pre-1100)
- Known spelling variations
- Early movement of the family name during the Middle Ages
- Noteworthy bearers from the 1500-1600s
- First settlers to North America
- Notable contemporary bearers of the name
- A description and/or full color picture of the Coat of Arms, Crest, and Motto (where available)
Spelling variations of this family name include: Crest, Cret, Crests, Crets, Creste, Crete, Crête, Crestes, Cretes, du Crest, Ducrest, du Cret, Ducret, Crais, Crait, Crez, Ducrais, Ducrait, Ducrez, Cray, Crey and many more.First found in Bourgogne, where the family has held a family seat since ancient times.
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Our PDF Extended History includes the early history!
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Cray research. Another 244 words(17 lines of text) covering the years 1435 and 1632 are included under the topic Early Cray History in all our PDF Extended History products.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Cray. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Cray Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Tonis Cray, aged 42, landed in New York in 1643
- Myles Cray, who arrived in Virginia in 1661
- Teunis Cray, who landed in New York in 1664
- Henry Cray, who landed in Virginia in 1664
- Jno Cray, who arrived in Virginia in 1666
Cray Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Paul Cray settled in Virginia in 1732
- Jacob Simon Cray settled in 1772
Cray Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- John D Cray, aged 28, landed in New York in 1812
- John S. Cray settled in New York City in 1822
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- Hanks, Patricia and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8).
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The Cray Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Cray Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
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