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Crey Family Crest
Crey Family Crest
Crey

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Where did the French Crey family come from? What is the French Crey family crest and coat of arms? When did the Crey family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Crey family history?

The surname Crey 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 Crey 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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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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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Crey research. Another 244 words(17 lines of text) covering the years 1435 and 1632 are included under the topic Early Crey History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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More information is included under the topic Early Crey Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: John Victior Ducret settled in America in 1775; Pierre Ducret, aged 40; settled in Louisiana in 1719; Jacob Simon Cray settled in 1772; John Cray, aged 25.

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  10. Bolton, Charles Knowles. Bolton's American Armory. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1964. Print.
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The Crey Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Crey 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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