The Extended Craxford Family Genealogy Magazine

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The red pages are dedicated to the nucleus of families who can still be found in Gretton and the neighbouring villages of Cottingham and Middleton or migrated to Leicester and the Rugby area of Warwickshire.
Main Surnames: CRAXFORD, BEADSWORTH, BINLEY, CLAYPOLE, CRANE, POLLARD, TANSLEY, TILLEY.
LATEST STORY: THE EVOLVING HISTORY OF THE BEADSWORTH FAMILY (the first of four articles)
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The Craxford family can trace its ancestry back to 1620 in the village of Gretton, Northamptonshire. Over time the branches have spread outwards from these rural East Midlands origins. We have now traced branches of the family around the country to Leicester, Birmingham, Warwickshire, London, South Wales, Lincolnshire and Tyneside, further afield to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and recently over the Atlantic to the United States and Canada.

Within these pages is a fully searchable database of members of the Craxford family and other families who have become associated by marriage (now over 21,000 individuals and 5,500 marriages). The magazine has seven parts (each colour supplement featuring a different family line) managed by over a dozen associate editors, comprising about 450 pages of articles, editorials and letters, over 1300 photographs and over 750 birth, marriage and death certificates and census studies.

Our research is ongoing and details of additional people, places and events are continually being added our database. The site is updated at regular intervals using the genealogical standard GEDCOM file. The table below shows the current status of our family trees and the date of the last updated.

Because of the large volume of data that we have collected, it would be impractical to attempt to list all the individuals, surnames and places on this - our home page. However access to all of this information is available from the "places" and "surnames" links which can be found on any of the pages in our colour supplements. If you are looking for a specific person you can enter their details in the "Search Box" in the top left hand corner of those pages.

As a taster, we have pulled together a listing of the most commonly used male and female given names used by the family over the centuries.

Links to the latest three articles have been placed in the "Stop Press" on Page 1 of the Red Pages. Recently added people, families, photographs and documents can be accessed from the "What's New" menu on the same page. A more extensive list of the latest articles can be found on the first page of the Contents section.

Our Links with the World Outside

We are delighted, proud and humbled that the site has been presented with a number of awards (34 to date) from the world wide Award Provider community. The images above are among the highest attained. Full details can be found on Our Awards pages.

The Extended Craxford Family Genealogy Magazine has been on line for over ten years now. We are pleased and gratified to see a continuing stream of visitors, both new and returning. Our readership spans the globe.

This website recognizes that living individuals have a right to privacy. Every attempt has been made to protect the names of the living and they will appear only as "Living". Generally people born after 1911 and without a known date of death will be presumed to be living. A login account is not required to browse our website. Family members may request a login ID and password in order to access the private component of the website. A request for a login must be accompanied by a clear demonstration of your connection to a major line.

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See THE GREY PAGES. Page 8 and 9. F.A.Q. / Help for general guidance and navigation of the site.