McCran History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the McCran family

The surname McCran 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 McCran family

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McCran Spelling Variations

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

Early Notables of the McCran family

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McCran migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

McCran Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Ann McCran, who settled in New York in 1774
Ann McCran, aged 27, who arrived in New York in 1774 1
Mary McCran, aged 25, who landed in New York in 1774 1

Contemporary Notables of the name McCran (post 1700) +

Thomas Francis McCran (1875-1925), American jurist and politician, Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly, President of the New Jersey Senate, and Attorney General of New Jersey

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)