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Local: Of Crawford, a parish in Lancashire, also sereral smaller places in North Britain. Sir Reginald de Craufurd, shriff of Ayrshire in 1296, seems to have been the common ancestor of many branches of the family.
Local: from the barony of Crawford in Lanarkshire � cru, bloody, and ford, a pass. The family are descended from Reginald de Crawford, living in the beginning of the twelfth century, who was the youngest son of Alan fourth Earl of Richmond.
Local: First assumed by the proprietor of the lands and barony of Crawford, in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The extreme ancestor of the ancient family of Crawford, in Scotland, was Reginald, youngest son of Alan, the fourth Earl of Richmond. He seems to have accompanied David the First to the north, and to have received extensive grants of land in Strath Cluyd, or Clydesdale, whence his immediate descendants adopted the name of Crawford, then forming one of the largest baronies in Scotland, and signifying in Gaelic "The pass of blood," from 'cru,' bloody, and 'ford,' a pass or way, as commemorative, probably, of some sanguinary conflict between the Aborigines and the Roman invaders. The name has been derived by others from 'crodh' and 'port,' pronounced 'cro-fort,' signifying "a sheltering place for cattle."
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