Cran History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Cran family

The surname Cran was first found in Leitrim (Irish: Liatroim) anciently the western half of the kingdom of Breifne, located in Northeastern Ireland, in Leinster province, where they held a family seat as a descendant of Billrian, a chief of the Heber line of Kings, descended from Daire Cearb, brother of Lughaidh, a King of Munster. Irish history, after the Norman Conquest of England, was strongly influenced by the invasion of Strongbow in 1172, almost equal to the enormous Irish cultural impact on England Scotland, Wales and the whole of Europe before the Norman Conquest from the 1st to 7th centuries. Many Irish clanns, sept names were intermixed and family groupings became almost indistinguishable.

Early History of the Cran family

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Cran Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: McRinn, Rinn, Ring, McCrann, McCran, Cran, Crann, Rynne and many more.

Early Notables of the Cran family

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Cran migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Cran Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Abraham Cran, who settled in America in 1724
Hans Jerick Cran, who settled in Philadelphia in 1738
Mary Cran, who arrived in America in 1756
Frances Cran, who arrived in Charles Town [Charleston], South Carolina in 1766

Cran Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Joseph Cran, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1844 1
G Cran, who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1850 1
S K Cran, who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1851 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Cran (post 1700) +

Chris Cran (b. 1949), Canadian visual artist from Ocean Falls, British Columbia, inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2002
James Douglas Cran (b. 1944), British former Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament for Beverley (1987-1997) and Beverley and Holderness (1997-2005)

Citations +

Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)