Edward
"2nd Baronet"
Crofton
aka Lawder Crofton
Born in Ireland
Ancestors 
Brother of
Sophia (Lowther-Crofton) Metge and Catherine (Crofton) Somerville
Husband of
Anne (Croker) Crofton
— married
13 Apr 1767 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Catherine Ann Crofton, Caroline Crofton, Louisa (Crofton) Maitland, Frances (Crofton) Caulfeild, Edward Crofton, Harriet (Crofton) Caulfeild, Marcus Thomas Henry Crofton, George Alfred Crofton, William Gorges Crofton and Augusta Lowther (Crofton) Caulfeild
Died
at age 48
in Ireland
Profile last modified
| Created 9 Jun 2015
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Biography
Served as High Sheriff of Roscommon |(1773) and sat in the Irish House of Commons (1775-1797).
Edward Crofton was offered a peerage in 1797 but died before receiving it. Instead, his wife became Baroness Crofton in the Peerage of Ireland on December 1, 1797.
Sources
- "The Story of Mote" by Francis George Crofton, 1895. An online copy can be found at roscommontownheritage.com. Accessed Sep. 10, 2015.
- References at ThePeerage.com.
- "The Crofton Memoirs" by Henry Thomas Crofton, 1911.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Edward by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Geoffrey Crofton
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Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup I2a2b, FTDNA kit #B101899
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~1.56%
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