Leitrim-Roscommon

I read somewhere that all of the Crane / Crain / Crean / Cryan folks came from the same area, around the Roscommon - Sligo border area. Comment from someone who knows? It seems that I've seen some Cranes who trace back to England -- did they also originate in Ireland at some point? It would be inter...

WOW!!! This is seriously hitting the jackpot!! I feel like a kid at Christmas!! Thanks for all for the information. I will email to all offline, but I'll post what I know about the Crane family here, so others can find it later. Picking up with Michael Crane marrying Mary Scanlon (1887), they had fi...

Gentlemen -- This is a serious object lesson in Irish spelling variations! It is undoubtedly profitable to learn these lessons early, and you are clearly masters of the art. I had been meaning to ask about the utility of LDS records, as so far I have not left the computer. I think you answered that ...

John -- Thanks very much! This information looks extremely good, as one reference suggests Michael and Mary as parents, and another lists May as birth month. I hear you on the name spellings. That issue confused me a bit early on, until I thought about how "Crane" comes out with an Irish a...

I'm looking for Michael CRANE (or variants), b in Roscommon in 1860, emigrated abt 1880 to Leominster, Mass, USA, where he married Mary SCANLON, from Sligo, and lived until his death in 1930. That information is from family tradition -- I have no hard evidence yet. The name appears as "CRAIN&qu...