Jonathan Crawford

Ancestors

Son of David Crawford and Lynn (Wilson) Crawford

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Biography

Jonathan Crawford is a member of the Igo Name Study Project.

Jonathan Crawford is a member of the Crawford Name Study Project.

Jonathan Crawford was a RAWKER in the We Will RAWK You Event.

Jonathan (Jon) is as old as his tongue and slightly older than his teeth, and is working on documenting his paternal ancestry via source documents as presented by his cousin Hester Murray in her 1940 publication Family Record of James Crawford (1774-1845) of Washington County, Pennsylvania and Medina County, Ohio.

Along the way, he is researching the lineage for his own maternal ancestry, as well as his wife's family (both paternal and maternal) in order to create as complete a picture as possible for posterity.

The Crawford surname origins begin in Scotland a thousand or more years ago (around 1100 A.D.), and through DNA analysis have been discovered to have multiple branches that Jon does not relate to until 1300 A.D. at the latest, with an outside chance of connecting all branches together somewhere around 548 A.D., well prior to surnames being in use or the existence of "Crawford" as one of the options.

The ancient clan lines include the descendants of Auchenames (haplogroup I1), Kilbirnie (R-DF13 or R-CT4169), Ardmillan (R1b). The lineage split between Kilbirnie and Ardmillan seems to be around L-151, which originated around 5,000 years ago. ^[1]

His known ancestors of that ilk are found in Pennsylvania, United States from 1701 A.D. and moved to Ohio sometime around 1760 or so, where they have remained until only the last hundred years or so when mobility became much easier. Some portion of the family remains in Ohio until the present day.

It has been documented here on WikiTree that Jon's family is descended from (David Crawford II (1662-abt.1762)), but Jon believes that to be untrue as he belongs to a different Y-DNA haplogroup than other tested descendants of David II.

1. James Crawford (1701-1749) is not listed in David II's will (his supposed father), who lists even sons who have died prior to him, as he passes on belongings and slaves.
2. Previously mentioned DNA results indicate that Jonathan Crawford (haplogroup R-BY200574) does not descend from the same Paternal lineage as David II's documented descendants from other sons (haplogroup I2-BY3099).
   1. There is no reason to suspect a NPE (Non-Parental Event) on either side at this point, other sources seem to be clear on the relationships.
   2. Jonathan Crawford has matched with several other testers on FTDNA, but none of them match with David II's descendants, and no common ancestors have been found back to 1700. Current testing indicates a probability of a common ancestor somewhere between 1500 and 1700.

The exact point in the lineage where the incorrect relation exists is still under debate, but Jon believes that James Crawford (1701-1749) should not be listed as David II's son, for the following reasons:

1. Documented, sourced cousins with ancestry back to Josiah Crawford (1735-1797) (James' son) report that they have matched via auDNA to descendants of Guyon Morrison, Josiah's father-in-law.
   1. Only two descendants of Guyon are on WikiTree with GedMatch IDs, and neither match to cousins under James (although they are 7th cousins, so this is entirely possible). Additional information has been requested of those cousins to clarify their "matches". If there is none found, then auDNA matching cannot be used as positive evidence of a familial relationship at this point.
   2. Guyon Morrison signed surety for James Crawford before his death, and also took part in the inventory of his belongings when he passed, so clearly was a close friend as well as father of James' son's wife. This seems to be a clear indicator that James Crawford is indeed Josiah's father, despite the lack of a clear birth record. (Josiah mentioned as "Josias" in James' will, hence the discussion of possible confusion)
2. Documentation back to Josiah Crawford seems to be intact, the link between James Crawford (b. 1774) and Josiah his father is solely through Josiah's will, but there is no reason to doubt its veracity or the link to this James.
   1. This would infer that despite the auDNA matching difficulty to Guyon's descendants, the clearly indicated close relationships to Josiah's father-in-law should be proof of James' parental relationship to Josiah.

Once clarity is reached regarding Guyon Morrison's descendants matching, Jon will request that the paternal relationship between James and David II be removed, disconnecting this paternal branch from 1701 until the present from the overall universal tree until lineage can be proved elsewhere.

Earliest Known Ancestors

Y-DNA - Direct Male Line

Starting with the father of Jonathan Crawford:

1. Living Crawford b. 1940s, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States DNA ✓
2. Arthur Crawford b. 1923-07-25, Wadsworth, Medina, Ohio, United States DNA ✓
3. Claud Crawford b. 1890-08-29, Guilford Township, Medina, Ohio, United States DNA ✓
4. Porter Crawford b. 1845-02-25, Seville, Medina, Ohio, United States DNA ✓
5. James Crawford b. 1808-07-29, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States [confident]
6. James Crawford b. 1774-02-17, Washington, Pennsylvania [confident]
7. Josiah Crawford b. 1735-00-00, Chester, Pennsylvania [confident]
8. James Crawford b. 1701-01-22, Jamestown, James City County, Virginia Colony [uncertain]
9. Andrew Crawford b. 1680-00-00, Ireland [uncertain]

View the Y-DNA descendants of Andrew Crawford.

mtDNA - Direct Female Line

Starting with the mother of Jonathan Crawford:

1. Living Wilson b. 1950s, East Liverpool, Columbiana, Ohio, United States [confident]
2. Helen Gillespie b. 1918-11-11, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States [confident]
3. Bernice Anderson b. 1900-02-15, Ohio, United States [confident]
4. Mary Hoge b. 1874-07-11, Athens, Ohio, United States [confident]
5. Ann Wood b. 1838-09-15, Ohio, United States [confident]
6. Rhoda Powell b. 1811-00-00, Belmont, Belmont, Ohio, United States [uncertain]
7. Doris Alfred b. 1775-00-00 [uncertain]

View the mtDNA descendants of Doris Alfred.

WikiTree Relatives

1. Michael MacPhail
2. Terri Crowell
3. John Wilson
4. Thomas Wilson
5. Chris Ferraiolo
6. John Douglas

Research

TO-DO list: Jonathan's current to-do list

Tools

• Research Worksheet Template
• Crawford7109sandbox

• Family anniversary calendar: https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:Anniversaries&m=8

Digital Afterlife

To aid WikiTree in the administration of my account should I be incapacitated, or in the event of my death, I hereby give permission for all open profiles I'm managing to be transferred to the following:

1. Ancestors or siblings of profiles above David Arthur Crawford to Terri Crowell, Michael MacPhail or their digital afterlife appointees.
2. Ancestors or siblings of profiles above Lynnedora Louise Wilson Crawford to John Mark Wilson or Thomas Wilson or their digital afterlife appointees.
3. Private profiles may be distributed to John Mark Wilson or Thomas Wilson: and
4. any leftover unrelated non-private profiles may be orphaned.

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R-L151

• First-hand information, except when typed by the second hand. Never typed by the feet. A Moose once bit my sister.
• Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal GEDmatch comparison between Jonathan Crawford , GEDmatch kit # DT6008008, and Living (Crawford) Pope, GEDmatch kit # A449987 , his 2nd cousin 1x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are Porter Crawford and Ella Foskett, the great great grandparents of Jonathan Crawford and great grandparents of Living (Crawford) Pope. Predicted relationship from GEDmatch: 2nd cousin once removed, based on sharing 32.6 cM across 3 segments.