Family tradition as expressed in Heiner, ( Patrick Cragun Descendants in America, 1744-1969 ) holds that Caleb Cragun was born in England in 1700 and lived at Huntingdon, Huntingtonshire until he relocated to Ireland perhaps as a part of the Plantation Movement to settle lands forfeited to the British Crown by deposed Irish nobility. This settlement effort was being made using English and Scottish workers at the same time that other settlements were being established in Colonial America. However, another tradition in the family of Jean (Cragun) Tombaugh, tells that our ancestor was originally of Scotland and the name was McCRAGUN.
Caleb had a son named Patrick who was born c1745 in Ireland, perhaps in County Armagh, Ulster. However, Heiner reports that a book entitled, History of Cass County, Indiana found at the Indianapolis Library states on page 214 that: “the family of CRAGUN was founded in America by Patrick Cragun who came from Dublin, Ireland prior to the Revolutionary War and who took part in the struggles of the American Colonists that resulted in the winning of Independence.” She also reports that a genealogical history of South West Virginia states that one Patrick Cragun had been arrested for the fourth time by the King's officers for his revolutionary tendencies. The identity of his wife, Rose Alley (or Abby) or Hanna Elsy (perhaps a second marriage) is unclear as is the date (1780's) and place of marriage. They are however, tied to Russell County, Virginia located in the extreme southwestern part of the state 20 miles north of Bristol, through the record of their eldest son Isaac as recorded in the Cass County history. Otherwise the family is more closely identified with Sullivan County, Tennessee which borders Virginia and shares the city of Bristol.
The first record of Patrick known to exist is his listing in 1779 as a taxable in Washington County, N.C. which became Sullivan County, TN after 1780. In this record he is entered as Patrick Craguner where he is shown to have been assessed on: 170 acres of land, value £100; four horses, value £510; three cattle, value £30; and ready money, four shillings; for a total taxable estate of £640 and four shillings. While Negros were taxable property at that time, none were taxed to Patrick.
A 1784 listing of 5,486 North Carolina land grants in the new state of Tennessee shows at page 47, grant #1274 to be a general purchase grant to Patrick Cragon for 170 acres on Indian Creek, Sullivan County, Tennessee, a tributary of the Holston River. This farmstead was located only a few miles from Booher Creek, a tributary of Indian creek and the likely location of members of the Booher family. The Cragun and Booher families were later near neighbors in Boone County, Indiana.
Patrick's great-grandson, S. N. Cragun married Adelaide Booher at Worth Township, Boone County, in 1883; nearly one hundred years following their family’s neighboring settlements in Tennessee.
The last known listing for Patrick was in 1812 showing that Patrick Creggon sold 164 acres on Indian Creek to Charles Barnett on Feb. 19, 1812. However, a bit earlier he is found as Patrick Cragun of record in Russell Co., VA in 1806, about 30 miles North of the Indian Creek farm, when he was exempt from County levies on account of age and bodily infirmity.
The various spellings of his surname were characteristic of the times when clerks and recorders often wrote what they thought they heard without knowing whether the name was being spelled correctly or not. Doubtless these records all refer to the same individual.
Patrick and Rose (Alley) Cragun had eleven children
as follows:
Isaac , b. 1785. Immigrated to Indiana and settled in Cass County. His line spells the name CRAGAN.
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Another Day Searching For Caleb Cragun In Ireland
The bad news is at the bottom. In Ancestry.com there is a tree http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/195701/person/-2111813003?ssrc= that shows Patricks birth in Abt 1700in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England near the home of OLIVER CROMWELL.. I have heard this before.
It also shows Spouse & Children
One of the better websites for free Irish church records is http://www.irishgenealogy.ie
Aside from the info below there wasn't a record of Patrick or Caleb under any spelling. There were enough not Patrick or Caleb to make it interesting, see comments below. I followed every trail I could to no success.
These are Catholic Churches in Dublin. If Patrick came to Ireland as part of the plantation movement, it seems he would be Protestant. Although legends say he was born in Dublin, that in fact may not be correct.
I am using the websites listed in the right sidebar of http://larrycragunfamily.blogspot.com/
I am searching the names that the website http;//www.IrishTimes.com/ancestor lists as most common: cregan, creaghan,creegon, creegan, creighane, creagin, cregin, creigan, Mac Creigain, Creagon, Creagone, Creegon, Creighan, Creggan.
I will be focused on Limerick, Galway, Monoghan, and Dublin as these are the areas with the most families with these names.
Nothing found in the site: http://digital.ucd.ie/ or The National Library of Ireland
http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/ = FOUND a baptism of a Patrick Joseph Creagan June 21, 1852: Father George Creagan, MOther Rose Murray: June 21, 1852: Spsonser Maurice Crehan in DublinParish Church: St Nicholas
There were many Creaghan, Cregan, and some Creagan in the mid 1700's found on the Irish Genealogy Site - In Dublin.
The Churches were St Nicolas, St Andrew, St Audoen, St Catherine, St Michan, and St Mary Pro Cathedral
I was able to do a thorough name search of all names, only coming up with these mentioned.
I did find 1 Patt Cregan of Ormond Key who was baptized 9 July 1738. His father was James and mother Mary Duffe.
Searched FindMYPast.com for Caleb with name variants to no success.
Also Searched FamilySearch.org for:
Caleb *cra and *cre in London 1700 - 1799 with no results.
It also shows Spouse & Children
Hannah as Spouse 1726 –
- and children
One of the better websites for free Irish church records is http://www.irishgenealogy.ie
Aside from the info below there wasn't a record of Patrick or Caleb under any spelling. There were enough not Patrick or Caleb to make it interesting, see comments below. I followed every trail I could to no success.
These are Catholic Churches in Dublin. If Patrick came to Ireland as part of the plantation movement, it seems he would be Protestant. Although legends say he was born in Dublin, that in fact may not be correct.
I am using the websites listed in the right sidebar of http://larrycragunfamily.blogspot.com/
I am searching the names that the website http;//www.IrishTimes.com/ancestor lists as most common: cregan, creaghan,creegon, creegan, creighane, creagin, cregin, creigan, Mac Creigain, Creagon, Creagone, Creegon, Creighan, Creggan.
I will be focused on Limerick, Galway, Monoghan, and Dublin as these are the areas with the most families with these names.
Nothing found in the site: http://digital.ucd.ie/ or The National Library of Ireland
http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/ = FOUND a baptism of a Patrick Joseph Creagan June 21, 1852: Father George Creagan, MOther Rose Murray: June 21, 1852: Spsonser Maurice Crehan in DublinParish Church: St Nicholas
There were many Creaghan, Cregan, and some Creagan in the mid 1700's found on the Irish Genealogy Site - In Dublin.
The Churches were St Nicolas, St Andrew, St Audoen, St Catherine, St Michan, and St Mary Pro Cathedral
I was able to do a thorough name search of all names, only coming up with these mentioned.
I did find 1 Patt Cregan of Ormond Key who was baptized 9 July 1738. His father was James and mother Mary Duffe.
Searched FindMYPast.com for Caleb with name variants to no success.
Also Searched FamilySearch.org for:
Caleb *cra and *cre in London 1700 - 1799 with no results.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Isaac and Caleb Cragun
Brothers Isaac and Caleb Cragun were found in Brookville, Franklin, Indiana 1820 Census. We are told that Caleb was also the name of their grandfather.
Friday, June 15, 2012
No Caleb Cragun in these lists
In
1740 a list of Protestant Householders was compiled
for Ireland. Within Ulster transcripts of names
and places are available for counties Antrim, Armagh,
Down, Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone. The transcripts
are arranged by county, barony and parish. As far
as I know, townlands are not given except for the
baronies of Keenaght and North West Liberties in County
Londonderry.
The Plantation Movement in 1745 Timeline
I had a few minutes today to ask a Family History Library Consultant a question on trying to locate our grandfather Caleb Cragun. He only had a few minutes but was able to provide some info and will give me more later. He coincidentally has been searching for 20 years on a similar family story: From England to Ireland and Originally from Scotland. I think there is a high probability our Family follows this heritage back to Scotland.
There were companies of guilds that were sent from London called the London Company. There were more than one. The second apparently were those of Scottish heritage.
He told me that there were patterns of movement for these families. Ours likely ended up in Ulster. From Wiki:
The Plantation of Ulster (Irish: Plandáil Uladh) was the organised colonisation (plantation) of Ulster – a province of Ireland – by people from Scotland and England. Private plantation by wealthy landowners began in 1606,[1] while official plantation controlled by King James I of England and VI of Scotland began in 1609. All land owned by Irish chieftains of the Uí Néill and Uí Domhnaill (along with those of their supporters) was confiscated and used to settle the colonists. This land comprised an estimated half a million acres (2,000 km²) in the counties Tyrconnell, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Cavan, Coleraine and Armagh.[2] Most of the counties Antrim and Down were privately colonised.[1]
The "British tenants",[3] a term applied to the colonists,[4] were mostly from Scotland and England. They were required to be English-speaking and Protestant.[5] The Scottish colonists were mostly Presbyterian[3] and the English mostly members of the Church of England. The Plantation of Ulster was the biggest of the Plantations of Ireland. Ulster was colonised to prevent further rebellion, as it had been the region most resistant to English control during the preceding century.
That movement of people, when in America, tended to move South into Virginia. This again gives a hope we have corroboration coming on Patrick as he did go South.
He is beginning to upload his 20 years of research into the Family Search Wiki.
I next am trying to locate the names if published of people in this company.
There were companies of guilds that were sent from London called the London Company. There were more than one. The second apparently were those of Scottish heritage.
He told me that there were patterns of movement for these families. Ours likely ended up in Ulster. From Wiki:
The Plantation of Ulster (Irish: Plandáil Uladh) was the organised colonisation (plantation) of Ulster – a province of Ireland – by people from Scotland and England. Private plantation by wealthy landowners began in 1606,[1] while official plantation controlled by King James I of England and VI of Scotland began in 1609. All land owned by Irish chieftains of the Uí Néill and Uí Domhnaill (along with those of their supporters) was confiscated and used to settle the colonists. This land comprised an estimated half a million acres (2,000 km²) in the counties Tyrconnell, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Cavan, Coleraine and Armagh.[2] Most of the counties Antrim and Down were privately colonised.[1]
The "British tenants",[3] a term applied to the colonists,[4] were mostly from Scotland and England. They were required to be English-speaking and Protestant.[5] The Scottish colonists were mostly Presbyterian[3] and the English mostly members of the Church of England. The Plantation of Ulster was the biggest of the Plantations of Ireland. Ulster was colonised to prevent further rebellion, as it had been the region most resistant to English control during the preceding century.
That movement of people, when in America, tended to move South into Virginia. This again gives a hope we have corroboration coming on Patrick as he did go South.
He is beginning to upload his 20 years of research into the Family Search Wiki.
I next am trying to locate the names if published of people in this company.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Caleb Cragun Family, England Ireland America
CALEB CRAGUN (first gen.)
b.ca. 1700, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
d. (unkn)
He resided near the home of Oliver Cromwell. Caleb Cragun moved to Ireland where he married an "Irish lady". They had a son PATRICK CRAGUN.
PATRICK CRAGUN (second gen.)
b.ca. 1743/45, in Northern Ireland.
d. (date unkn), in Va. Tradition tells that some years later his remains were brought to Indiana, and reburied near Whitestown in Boone Co., in a field of a farm near ENOCH CRAGUN, Sr.'s old farm.
JOHNATHAN O. Q. CRAGUN wrote (date unkn) "Our great grandfather PATRICK CRAGUN is buried near Whitestown, Ind. I saw where he was buried some five years ago while I was in Indiana."
Some descendants of Enoch Cragun (son of ELISHA CRAGUN, 1786) stated that they had visited a cemetery at Whitestown, Indiana, and had seen the graves of Patrick Cragun & his son, Elisha Cragun. They said that the cemetery had no name and is in the church yard there.[1]
A trip was made to Whitestown, Ind., in Aug. 1964, by JEAN CRAGUN TOMBAUGH of Rochester, Ind., and a search of four graveyards was made. There were many Cragun graves, but none for our Patrick Cragun. Many were found that were impossible to read, and many that were broken off and the inscription missing. Only one cemetery had no name, and appeared to be very old indeed. It was just off the road enclosed with wire fence. I believe the twp is Eagle twp, and the cemetery is located about two miles south of Whitestown, on the left (east) side after crossing a small bridge. There was no church, although there might have been one originally.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Update On The Plantation Movement Regarding Patrick Craguns Father Caleb Cragun
In studying Wikipedia - and analyzing the times that Patrick Cragun was born, it appears the Counties below in this article are more likely where Caleb Cragun settled his family than Ulser.
The conditions which motivated the settlements were religous persecution in England and a chance to move up from being poor. It appears these platation movement participants came about 150 years or so after the plantation movement began. If Patrick were indentured out to a bootmaker, the family might have been poor.
Reading the below from Wikipedia would suggest that Counties Sligo, land in Wicklow and planned a full scale Plantation of Connacht, and County Roscommon were more likely locateion. Next, Wentworth surveyed the major Catholic landowners in Leinster
In England, Catholics were greatly outnumbered by Protestants and lived under constant fear of betrayal by their fellows. In Ireland however they could blend in with the local majority Catholic population in a way that was not possible in England. English Catholic planters were most common in County Kilkenny, where they may have made up half of all the English and Scottish planters to arrive in this region.[29] Given this it is no surprise that the sons and grandsons of English planters played a major part in the politics of the Confederation of Kilkenny in the 1640s, most notably James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven.
Plantations stayed off the political agenda until the accession of Thomas Wentworth, a close advisor of Charles I, to the position of Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1632. Wentworth’s job was to raise revenue for Charles and to cement Royal control over Ireland — which meant, among other things, more plantations, both to raise money and to break the political power of the Irish Catholic gentry. Wentworth confiscated land in Wicklow and planned a full scale Plantation of Connacht — where all Catholic landowners would lose between a half and a quarter of their estates. The local juries were intimidated into accepting Wentworth’s settlement and when a group of Connacht landowners complained to Charles I, Wentworth had them imprisoned. However, settlement only went ahead in County Sligo and County Roscommon. Next, Wentworth surveyed the major Catholic landowners in Leinster for similar treatment, including members of the powerful Butler dynasty. Wentworth’s plans were interrupted by the outbreak of the Bishops Wars in Scotland, which eventually led to Wentworth’s execution by the English Parliament and to civil war in England and Ireland. His constant questioning of Catholic land titles was one of the major causes of the 1641 Rebellion and the principal reason why it was joined by Ireland’s wealthiest and most powerful Catholic families.[30]
The conditions which motivated the settlements were religous persecution in England and a chance to move up from being poor. It appears these platation movement participants came about 150 years or so after the plantation movement began. If Patrick were indentured out to a bootmaker, the family might have been poor.
Reading the below from Wikipedia would suggest that Counties Sligo, land in Wicklow and planned a full scale Plantation of Connacht, and County Roscommon were more likely locateion. Next, Wentworth surveyed the major Catholic landowners in Leinster
In England, Catholics were greatly outnumbered by Protestants and lived under constant fear of betrayal by their fellows. In Ireland however they could blend in with the local majority Catholic population in a way that was not possible in England. English Catholic planters were most common in County Kilkenny, where they may have made up half of all the English and Scottish planters to arrive in this region.[29] Given this it is no surprise that the sons and grandsons of English planters played a major part in the politics of the Confederation of Kilkenny in the 1640s, most notably James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven.
Plantations stayed off the political agenda until the accession of Thomas Wentworth, a close advisor of Charles I, to the position of Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1632. Wentworth’s job was to raise revenue for Charles and to cement Royal control over Ireland — which meant, among other things, more plantations, both to raise money and to break the political power of the Irish Catholic gentry. Wentworth confiscated land in Wicklow and planned a full scale Plantation of Connacht — where all Catholic landowners would lose between a half and a quarter of their estates. The local juries were intimidated into accepting Wentworth’s settlement and when a group of Connacht landowners complained to Charles I, Wentworth had them imprisoned. However, settlement only went ahead in County Sligo and County Roscommon. Next, Wentworth surveyed the major Catholic landowners in Leinster for similar treatment, including members of the powerful Butler dynasty. Wentworth’s plans were interrupted by the outbreak of the Bishops Wars in Scotland, which eventually led to Wentworth’s execution by the English Parliament and to civil war in England and Ireland. His constant questioning of Catholic land titles was one of the major causes of the 1641 Rebellion and the principal reason why it was joined by Ireland’s wealthiest and most powerful Catholic families.[30]
Friday, May 18, 2012
Was Caleb Cragun Part Of The Plantation Movement
It seems to me that it a productive thing to focus on would be to document if Patrick Craguns Father, Caleb Cragun was truly part of the Plantation Movement. Both England and Scotland citizens moved to Ireland in the Plantation Movement. If we can find a record of Caleb we can possibley determine if he came from England or Scotland to Ireland.
Question then: Is there a list of who were in the plantation movement?
It does not appear that Dublin was a part of the plantation movement. This might dispute he was in the movement of that he was really from Dublin when Patrick Cragun ran away to America.Mocavo Search for "Cragguner"
BIOGRAPHY: The first record of Patrick known to exist is his listing in 1779 as a taxable in Washington County, N.C. which became Sullivan County, TN after 1780. In this record he is entered as Patrick Craguner where he is shown to have been assessed on: 170 acres of land, val ue L100; four horses, value L510; three cattle, value L30; and ready money, four shillings; f or a total taxable estate of L640 and four shillings. While Negros were taxable property at that time, none were taxed to Patrick.
BIOGRAPHY: A 1784 listing of 5,486 North Carolina land grants in the new state of Tennessee shows at page 47, grant #1274 to be a general purchase grant to Patrick Cragon for 170 acres on Indian Creek, Sullivan County, Tennessee, a tributary of the Holston River. This farmsted was located only a few miles from Booher Creek, a tributary of Indian creek and the likely location of members of the Booher family. The Cragun and Booher families were later near neighbors in Boone County, Indiana. Patrick's greatgrandson, S. N. Cragun married Adelaide Booher at Worth Township, Boone County, in 1883, nearly one hundred years following their familiy's neighboring settlements in Tennessee.
BIOGRAPHY: The last known listing for Patrick was in 1812 showing that Patrick Creggon sold 164 acres on Indian Creek to Charles Barnette on Feb. 19, 1812. However, a bit earlier he is f ound as Patrick Cragun of record in Russel Co., VA in 1806, about 30 miles North of the Indian Creek farm, when he was exempt from County levies on account of age and bodily infirmity.
Web_Links: CRAGUN FAMILY Story. [From the Cragun Family Web site: http://home1/. gte.net/ben42/story.htm]
BIOGRAPHY: Prepared: December 16, 1996. Contents: Introduction Caleb Cragun Partick Cragun Elisha Cragun Hiram Cragun Strange N. Cragun Dwight B. Cragun Ben M. Cragun J. Patrick Cragun Rebecca M. Cragun Rachel A. Cragun A. Elisha Cragun Samuel F. M. Cragun
BIOGRAPHY: The origin of the spelling of the CRAGUN family name is something of a mystery. Members of the family have used different spellings over the years with one vowel substituting for another. For example, brothers have used different spellings, one choosing Cragun, another choosing Cragon and yet a third electing Cragan. The phonetic kryaghen is a transliteration from a Celtic (Gaelic) word meaning: a little rocky height, or a rocky wilderness. It is likely to have originally been a place name rather than a family name, but a place name from which family names were derived. Some of its anglicized usages include:
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Creggan. A town land in what once had been the Barony of Upper Fews, County Armagh, Ulster, Northern Ireland. It is here that proprietors settled Scottish and English prote stants on their estates to work the land. Through this area flows a small stream called Creeg an River. Creegan is also the name of a road in Derry, Londonderry County, Ulster. 2. Creagan. The name of a town land north of Oban, in Lorn, Argyll, Scotland. Here the name i s descriptive of the land: high and rocky. 3. Croghan. The name of a mountain (6,000 ft. high) west of the city of Arklow in County Wick low, Eire. The name is likely derived from the Gaelic word which is anglicized as croaghaun m eaning: a little pile of stones. 4. Cregan. A surname found throughout Ireland. One notable of that name is Martin Cregan of C ounty Meath, 1788-1870. He was portrait painter to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Francis Jo hnson, and was at one time president of the Royal Hibernian Academy. 5. Craigen. In 1272 the Church of Cragyn (now Cragie) in Kyle, Scotland was confirmed to th e monks of Paisley by Thomas de Cragyn, who assumed his name from his land.
BIOGRAPHY: Family tradition holds that Caleb Cragun was born in England in 1700 and lived a t Huntingdon, Huntingtonshire until he relocated to Ireland perhaps as a part of the Plantation Movement to settle lands forfeited to the British Crown by deposed Irish nobility. This settlement effort was being made using English and Scottish workers at the same time that other settlements were being established in Colonial America.
BIOGRAPHY: Caleb had a son named Patrick who was born c1745 in Ireland, perhaps in County Armagh, Ulster. However, Heiner reports that a book entitled, History of Cass County, Indiana found at the Indianapolis Library states on page 214 that, "the family of CRAGUN was founded in America by Patrick Cragun who came from Dublin, Ireland prior to the Revolutionary War and who took part in the struggles of the American Colonists that resulted in the winning of In dependence.'' She also reports that a genealogical history of South West Virginia states that one Patrick Cragun had been arrested for the fourth time by the King's officers for his revolutionary tendencies. The identity of his wife, Rose Alley (or Abby) or Hanna Elsy (perhaps a second marriage) is unclear as is the date (1780's) and place of marriage. They are however, tied to Russell County, Virginia located in the extreme southwestern part of the state 20 miles north of Bristol, through the record of their eldest son Isaac as recorded in the Cass County history. Otherwise the family is more closely identified with Sullivan County, Tennessee which borders Virginia and shares the city of Bristol.
BIOGRAPHY: The various spellings of his surname were characteristic of the times when clerk s and recorders often wrote what they thought they heard without knowing whether the name wa s being spelled correctly or not. Doubtless these records all refer to the same individual.
BIOGRAPHY: Patrick and Rose (Alley) Cragun had eleven children as follows: Isaac, b. 1785. Immigrated to Indiana and settled in Cass County. His line spells the name CRAGAN. Elisha, b. 1786. Immigrated to Fayette County, IN in 1814. His line spells the name CRAGUN. For further information, click on his name. John, b. 1787. Settled in Smith County, TN. His line uses the spelling CRAGON. Tyresha, b. 1789. No information. Lydia, b. 1791. Came to Franklin County, IN in 1819. Tabitha, b. 1793. No information. Hanna, b. 1795. No information. Joshua, b. 1796. Was in Franklin County, IN by 1822. Calib, b. 1796. Twin of Joshua. Was in Franklin County by 1819, then Howard County, IN by 1860. Elizabeth, 1799. Was at Nauvoo, IL in 1846. Syren, b. 1801. Was at Nauvoo, IL in 1846. Lucius, b 1803. No information. -
BIOGRAPHY: References Information on the history of the descendants of Patrick Cragun is found in the fo llowing four publications. Heiner, Eva L. Patrick Cragun Descendants in America 1744-1969. (J. Grant Stevenson, 230 Wes t 1230 North, Provo, UT 84601, 1969) 346pp. Tombaugh, Jean C. CRAGUN FAMILY ( Tombaugh House, 700 Pontiac Street, Rochester, I N 46975, 1990) 320pp. Cragun, Ben M., Col. (USA Ret.). The Cragun and Related Families in Boone County , Indiana 1835-1988. (112 Madison Court, Lebanon, IN 46052, 1988) 80pp. Cragon, Henry D.,Col. (AUS Ret.).Tennessee Cragons and Their Kinfolk. (217 Rockaway Road, Birmingham, AL 35209 1973) 102pp.
BIOGRAPHY: Do you have a comment? If you would like to make a comment or provide information about the CRAGUN family , please send it to: ben42@gte.net
SOURCES: Baptism, Confirmation and Endowment completed 26 Dec 1998 by Mayo Family at Los Angeles Temple
~Web_Links: CRAGUN FAMILY Story. [From the Cragun Family Web site: http://home1/. gte.net/ben42/story.htm]
BIOGRAPHY: Prepared: December 16, 1996. Contents: Introduction Caleb Cragun Partick Cragun Elisha Cragun Hiram Cragun Strange N. Cragun Dwight B. Cragun Ben M. Cragun J. Patrick Cragun Rebecca M. Cragun Rachel A. Cragun A. Elisha Cragun Samuel F. M. Cragun
BIOGRAPHY: The origin of the spelling of the CRAGUN family name is something of a mystery. Members of the family have used different spellings over the years with one vowel substituting for another. For example, brothers have used different spellings, one choosing Cragun, another choosing Cragon and yet a third electing Cragan. The phonetic kryaghen is a transliteration from a Celtic (Gaelic) word meaning: a little rocky height, or a rocky wilderness. It is likely to have originally been a place name rather than a family name, but a place name from which family names were derived. Some of its anglicized usages include:
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Creggan. A town land in what once had been the Barony of Upper Fews, County Armagh, Ulster, Northern Ireland. It is here that proprietors settled Scottish and English prote stants on their estates to work the land. Through this area flows a small stream called Creeg an River. Creegan is also the name of a road in Derry, Londonderry County, Ulster. 2. Creagan. The name of a town land north of Oban, in Lorn, Argyll, Scotland. Here the name i s descriptive of the land: high and rocky. 3. Croghan. The name of a mountain (6,000 ft. high) west of the city of Arklow in County Wick low, Eire. The name is likely derived from the Gaelic word which is anglicized as croaghaun m eaning: a little pile of stones. 4. Cregan. A surname found throughout Ireland. One notable of that name is Martin Cregan of C ounty Meath, 1788-1870. He was portrait painter to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Francis Jo hnson, and was at one time president of the Royal Hibernian Academy. 5. Craigen. In 1272 the Church of Cragyn (now Cragie) in Kyle, Scotland was confirmed to th e monks of Paisley by Thomas de Cragyn, who assumed his name from his land.
BIOGRAPHY: Family tradition holds that Caleb Cragun was born in England in 1700 and lived a t Huntingdon, Huntingtonshire until he relocated to Ireland perhaps as a part of the Plantation Movement to settle lands forfeited to the British Crown by deposed Irish nobility. This settlement effort was being made using English and Scottish workers at the same time that other settlements were being established in Colonial America.
BIOGRAPHY: Caleb had a son named Patrick who was born c1745 in Ireland, perhaps in County Armagh, Ulster. However, Heiner reports that a book entitled, History of Cass County, Indiana found at the Indianapolis Library states on page 214 that, "the family of CRAGUN was founded in America by Patrick Cragun who came from Dublin, Ireland prior to the Revolutionary War and who took part in the struggles of the American Colonists that resulted in the winning of In dependence.'' She also reports that a genealogical history of South West Virginia states that one Patrick Cragun had been arrested for the fourth time by the King's officers for his revolutionary tendencies. The identity of his wife, Rose Alley (or Abby) or Hanna Elsy (perhaps a second marriage) is unclear as is the date (1780's) and place of marriage. They are however, tied to Russell County, Virginia located in the extreme southwestern part of the state 20 miles north of Bristol, through the record of their eldest son Isaac as recorded in the Cass County history. Otherwise the family is more closely identified with Sullivan County, Tennessee which borders Virginia and shares the city of Bristol.
BIOGRAPHY: The first record of Patrick known to exist is his listing in 1779 as a taxable in Washington County, N.C. which became Sullivan County, TN after 1780. In this record he is entered as Patrick Craguner where he is shown to have been assessed on: 170 acres of land, val ue L100; four horses, value L510; three cattle, value L30; and ready money, four shillings; f or a total taxable estate of L640 and four shillings. While Negros were taxable property at that time, none were taxed to Patrick.
BIOGRAPHY: A 1784 listing of 5,486 North Carolina land grants in the new state of Tennessee shows at page 47, grant #1274 to be a general purchase grant to Patrick Cragon for 170 acres on Indian Creek, Sullivan County, Tennessee, a tributary of the Holston River. This farmsted was located only a few miles from Booher Creek, a tributary of Indian creek and the likely location of members of the Booher family. The Cragun and Booher families were later near neighbors in Boone County, Indiana. Patrick's greatgrandson, S. N. Cragun married Adelaide Booher at Worth Township, Boone County, in 1883, nearly one hundred years following their familiy's neighboring settlements in Tennessee.
BIOGRAPHY: The last known listing for Patrick was in 1812 showing that Patrick Creggon sold 164 acres on Indian Creek to Charles Barnette on Feb. 19, 1812. However, a bit earlier he is f ound as Patrick Cragun of record in Russel Co., VA in 1806, about 30 miles North of the Indian Creek farm, when he was exempt from County levies on account of age and bodily infirmity.
BIOGRAPHY: References Information on the history of the descendants of Patrick Cragun is found in the fo llowing four publications. Heiner, Eva L. Patrick Cragun Descendants in America 1744-1969. (J. Grant Stevenson, 230 Wes t 1230 North, Provo, UT 84601, 1969) 346pp. Tombaugh, Jean C. CRAGUN FAMILY ( Tombaugh House, 700 Pontiac Street, Rochester, I N 46975, 1990) 320pp. Cragun, Ben M., Col. (USA Ret.). The Cragun and Related Families in Boone County , Indiana 1835-1988. (112 Madison Court, Lebanon, IN 46052, 1988) 80pp. Cragon, Henry D.,Col. (AUS Ret.).Tennessee Cragons and Their Kinfolk. (217 Rockaway Road, Birmingham, AL 35209 1973) 102pp.
BIOGRAPHY: A 1784 listing of 5,486 North Carolina land grants in the new state of Tennessee shows at page 47, grant #1274 to be a general purchase grant to Patrick Cragon for 170 acres on Indian Creek, Sullivan County, Tennessee, a tributary of the Holston River. This farmsted was located only a few miles from Booher Creek, a tributary of Indian creek and the likely location of members of the Booher family. The Cragun and Booher families were later near neighbors in Boone County, Indiana. Patrick's greatgrandson, S. N. Cragun married Adelaide Booher at Worth Township, Boone County, in 1883, nearly one hundred years following their familiy's neighboring settlements in Tennessee.
BIOGRAPHY: The last known listing for Patrick was in 1812 showing that Patrick Creggon sold 164 acres on Indian Creek to Charles Barnette on Feb. 19, 1812. However, a bit earlier he is f ound as Patrick Cragun of record in Russel Co., VA in 1806, about 30 miles North of the Indian Creek farm, when he was exempt from County levies on account of age and bodily infirmity.
Web_Links: CRAGUN FAMILY Story. [From the Cragun Family Web site: http://home1/. gte.net/ben42/story.htm]
BIOGRAPHY: Prepared: December 16, 1996. Contents: Introduction Caleb Cragun Partick Cragun Elisha Cragun Hiram Cragun Strange N. Cragun Dwight B. Cragun Ben M. Cragun J. Patrick Cragun Rebecca M. Cragun Rachel A. Cragun A. Elisha Cragun Samuel F. M. Cragun
BIOGRAPHY: The origin of the spelling of the CRAGUN family name is something of a mystery. Members of the family have used different spellings over the years with one vowel substituting for another. For example, brothers have used different spellings, one choosing Cragun, another choosing Cragon and yet a third electing Cragan. The phonetic kryaghen is a transliteration from a Celtic (Gaelic) word meaning: a little rocky height, or a rocky wilderness. It is likely to have originally been a place name rather than a family name, but a place name from which family names were derived. Some of its anglicized usages include:
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Creggan. A town land in what once had been the Barony of Upper Fews, County Armagh, Ulster, Northern Ireland. It is here that proprietors settled Scottish and English prote stants on their estates to work the land. Through this area flows a small stream called Creeg an River. Creegan is also the name of a road in Derry, Londonderry County, Ulster. 2. Creagan. The name of a town land north of Oban, in Lorn, Argyll, Scotland. Here the name i s descriptive of the land: high and rocky. 3. Croghan. The name of a mountain (6,000 ft. high) west of the city of Arklow in County Wick low, Eire. The name is likely derived from the Gaelic word which is anglicized as croaghaun m eaning: a little pile of stones. 4. Cregan. A surname found throughout Ireland. One notable of that name is Martin Cregan of C ounty Meath, 1788-1870. He was portrait painter to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Francis Jo hnson, and was at one time president of the Royal Hibernian Academy. 5. Craigen. In 1272 the Church of Cragyn (now Cragie) in Kyle, Scotland was confirmed to th e monks of Paisley by Thomas de Cragyn, who assumed his name from his land.
BIOGRAPHY: Family tradition holds that Caleb Cragun was born in England in 1700 and lived a t Huntingdon, Huntingtonshire until he relocated to Ireland perhaps as a part of the Plantation Movement to settle lands forfeited to the British Crown by deposed Irish nobility. This settlement effort was being made using English and Scottish workers at the same time that other settlements were being established in Colonial America.
BIOGRAPHY: Caleb had a son named Patrick who was born c1745 in Ireland, perhaps in County Armagh, Ulster. However, Heiner reports that a book entitled, History of Cass County, Indiana found at the Indianapolis Library states on page 214 that, "the family of CRAGUN was founded in America by Patrick Cragun who came from Dublin, Ireland prior to the Revolutionary War and who took part in the struggles of the American Colonists that resulted in the winning of In dependence.'' She also reports that a genealogical history of South West Virginia states that one Patrick Cragun had been arrested for the fourth time by the King's officers for his revolutionary tendencies. The identity of his wife, Rose Alley (or Abby) or Hanna Elsy (perhaps a second marriage) is unclear as is the date (1780's) and place of marriage. They are however, tied to Russell County, Virginia located in the extreme southwestern part of the state 20 miles north of Bristol, through the record of their eldest son Isaac as recorded in the Cass County history. Otherwise the family is more closely identified with Sullivan County, Tennessee which borders Virginia and shares the city of Bristol.
BIOGRAPHY: The various spellings of his surname were characteristic of the times when clerk s and recorders often wrote what they thought they heard without knowing whether the name wa s being spelled correctly or not. Doubtless these records all refer to the same individual.
BIOGRAPHY: Patrick and Rose (Alley) Cragun had eleven children as follows: Isaac, b. 1785. Immigrated to Indiana and settled in Cass County. His line spells the name CRAGAN. Elisha, b. 1786. Immigrated to Fayette County, IN in 1814. His line spells the name CRAGUN. For further information, click on his name. John, b. 1787. Settled in Smith County, TN. His line uses the spelling CRAGON. Tyresha, b. 1789. No information. Lydia, b. 1791. Came to Franklin County, IN in 1819. Tabitha, b. 1793. No information. Hanna, b. 1795. No information. Joshua, b. 1796. Was in Franklin County, IN by 1822. Calib, b. 1796. Twin of Joshua. Was in Franklin County by 1819, then Howard County, IN by 1860. Elizabeth, 1799. Was at Nauvoo, IL in 1846. Syren, b. 1801. Was at Nauvoo, IL in 1846. Lucius, b 1803. No information. -
BIOGRAPHY: References Information on the history of the descendants of Patrick Cragun is found in the fo llowing four publications. Heiner, Eva L. Patrick Cragun Descendants in America 1744-1969. (J. Grant Stevenson, 230 Wes t 1230 North, Provo, UT 84601, 1969) 346pp. Tombaugh, Jean C. CRAGUN FAMILY ( Tombaugh House, 700 Pontiac Street, Rochester, I N 46975, 1990) 320pp. Cragun, Ben M., Col. (USA Ret.). The Cragun and Related Families in Boone County , Indiana 1835-1988. (112 Madison Court, Lebanon, IN 46052, 1988) 80pp. Cragon, Henry D.,Col. (AUS Ret.).Tennessee Cragons and Their Kinfolk. (217 Rockaway Road, Birmingham, AL 35209 1973) 102pp.
BIOGRAPHY: Do you have a comment? If you would like to make a comment or provide information about the CRAGUN family , please send it to: ben42@gte.net
SOURCES: Baptism, Confirmation and Endowment completed 26 Dec 1998 by Mayo Family at Los Angeles Temple
~Web_Links: CRAGUN FAMILY Story. [From the Cragun Family Web site: http://home1/. gte.net/ben42/story.htm]
BIOGRAPHY: Prepared: December 16, 1996. Contents: Introduction Caleb Cragun Partick Cragun Elisha Cragun Hiram Cragun Strange N. Cragun Dwight B. Cragun Ben M. Cragun J. Patrick Cragun Rebecca M. Cragun Rachel A. Cragun A. Elisha Cragun Samuel F. M. Cragun
BIOGRAPHY: The origin of the spelling of the CRAGUN family name is something of a mystery. Members of the family have used different spellings over the years with one vowel substituting for another. For example, brothers have used different spellings, one choosing Cragun, another choosing Cragon and yet a third electing Cragan. The phonetic kryaghen is a transliteration from a Celtic (Gaelic) word meaning: a little rocky height, or a rocky wilderness. It is likely to have originally been a place name rather than a family name, but a place name from which family names were derived. Some of its anglicized usages include:
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Creggan. A town land in what once had been the Barony of Upper Fews, County Armagh, Ulster, Northern Ireland. It is here that proprietors settled Scottish and English prote stants on their estates to work the land. Through this area flows a small stream called Creeg an River. Creegan is also the name of a road in Derry, Londonderry County, Ulster. 2. Creagan. The name of a town land north of Oban, in Lorn, Argyll, Scotland. Here the name i s descriptive of the land: high and rocky. 3. Croghan. The name of a mountain (6,000 ft. high) west of the city of Arklow in County Wick low, Eire. The name is likely derived from the Gaelic word which is anglicized as croaghaun m eaning: a little pile of stones. 4. Cregan. A surname found throughout Ireland. One notable of that name is Martin Cregan of C ounty Meath, 1788-1870. He was portrait painter to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Francis Jo hnson, and was at one time president of the Royal Hibernian Academy. 5. Craigen. In 1272 the Church of Cragyn (now Cragie) in Kyle, Scotland was confirmed to th e monks of Paisley by Thomas de Cragyn, who assumed his name from his land.
BIOGRAPHY: Family tradition holds that Caleb Cragun was born in England in 1700 and lived a t Huntingdon, Huntingtonshire until he relocated to Ireland perhaps as a part of the Plantation Movement to settle lands forfeited to the British Crown by deposed Irish nobility. This settlement effort was being made using English and Scottish workers at the same time that other settlements were being established in Colonial America.
BIOGRAPHY: Caleb had a son named Patrick who was born c1745 in Ireland, perhaps in County Armagh, Ulster. However, Heiner reports that a book entitled, History of Cass County, Indiana found at the Indianapolis Library states on page 214 that, "the family of CRAGUN was founded in America by Patrick Cragun who came from Dublin, Ireland prior to the Revolutionary War and who took part in the struggles of the American Colonists that resulted in the winning of In dependence.'' She also reports that a genealogical history of South West Virginia states that one Patrick Cragun had been arrested for the fourth time by the King's officers for his revolutionary tendencies. The identity of his wife, Rose Alley (or Abby) or Hanna Elsy (perhaps a second marriage) is unclear as is the date (1780's) and place of marriage. They are however, tied to Russell County, Virginia located in the extreme southwestern part of the state 20 miles north of Bristol, through the record of their eldest son Isaac as recorded in the Cass County history. Otherwise the family is more closely identified with Sullivan County, Tennessee which borders Virginia and shares the city of Bristol.
BIOGRAPHY: The first record of Patrick known to exist is his listing in 1779 as a taxable in Washington County, N.C. which became Sullivan County, TN after 1780. In this record he is entered as Patrick Craguner where he is shown to have been assessed on: 170 acres of land, val ue L100; four horses, value L510; three cattle, value L30; and ready money, four shillings; f or a total taxable estate of L640 and four shillings. While Negros were taxable property at that time, none were taxed to Patrick.
BIOGRAPHY: A 1784 listing of 5,486 North Carolina land grants in the new state of Tennessee shows at page 47, grant #1274 to be a general purchase grant to Patrick Cragon for 170 acres on Indian Creek, Sullivan County, Tennessee, a tributary of the Holston River. This farmsted was located only a few miles from Booher Creek, a tributary of Indian creek and the likely location of members of the Booher family. The Cragun and Booher families were later near neighbors in Boone County, Indiana. Patrick's greatgrandson, S. N. Cragun married Adelaide Booher at Worth Township, Boone County, in 1883, nearly one hundred years following their familiy's neighboring settlements in Tennessee.
BIOGRAPHY: The last known listing for Patrick was in 1812 showing that Patrick Creggon sold 164 acres on Indian Creek to Charles Barnette on Feb. 19, 1812. However, a bit earlier he is f ound as Patrick Cragun of record in Russel Co., VA in 1806, about 30 miles North of the Indian Creek farm, when he was exempt from County levies on account of age and bodily infirmity.
BIOGRAPHY: References Information on the history of the descendants of Patrick Cragun is found in the fo llowing four publications. Heiner, Eva L. Patrick Cragun Descendants in America 1744-1969. (J. Grant Stevenson, 230 Wes t 1230 North, Provo, UT 84601, 1969) 346pp. Tombaugh, Jean C. CRAGUN FAMILY ( Tombaugh House, 700 Pontiac Street, Rochester, I N 46975, 1990) 320pp. Cragun, Ben M., Col. (USA Ret.). The Cragun and Related Families in Boone County , Indiana 1835-1988. (112 Madison Court, Lebanon, IN 46052, 1988) 80pp. Cragon, Henry D.,Col. (AUS Ret.).Tennessee Cragons and Their Kinfolk. (217 Rockaway Road, Birmingham, AL 35209 1973) 102pp.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Researching Caleb Cragun In Dublin Ireland Parish Records
We have Caleb as Patrick Craguns Father and the story is told Caleb was sent from England to Ireland as part of the plantation movement. We seem to have no name for Calebs wife or documentation on Caleb in any way.
So today I searched in the Salt Lake City Family History library for any record of Caleb spelled C r a g u n. Nothing was found so I went through microfilmed parish of 2 Dublin Church records for the years he might have lived there.
I reviewed microfilm 992663 - Microfilm of typescript (28 leaves) in the Genealogical Office, Dublin.
with Parish register extracts, 1710 - 1809 ' Churchof Ireland. St. Annes CHurch (Dublin) Inlcudes buriels, marriages, and baptisms. looking in Dublin church records from years 1720 to 1820
and found no trace of any Cragun with any similar spelling.
So today I searched in the Salt Lake City Family History library for any record of Caleb spelled C r a g u n. Nothing was found so I went through microfilmed parish of 2 Dublin Church records for the years he might have lived there.
I reviewed microfilm 992663 - Microfilm of typescript (28 leaves) in the Genealogical Office, Dublin.
with Parish register extracts, 1710 - 1809 ' Churchof Ireland. St. Annes CHurch (Dublin) Inlcudes buriels, marriages, and baptisms. looking in Dublin church records from years 1720 to 1820
and found no trace of any Cragun with any similar spelling.
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