Birth: 1752 Frensham, Surrey, UK
Father: Henry Craft c1726-1811
Mother: Mary Merchant c1727-1815
Christening: 28 June 1752 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 18 November 1773 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Radford 1752-1828
Death: 7-9 June 1841 Whitmore Bottom, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Buried: 10 June 1841 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Henry Craft 1777-1777
Henry Craft 1778-1777
Elizabeth Craft 1780
Sarah Craft [Baker] 1782-1848
Henry Craft 1784
Stephen Craft 1796-1877
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 for the baptism of John Craft on 28 June 1752 at Frensham St Mary, father Henry Craft. "[Page] 37 1750 [...] 1752 [...] John Son of Henry Craft Baptz June 28". John's baptism is the first entry for a Craft in the Frensham records.
His brother and two sisters were baptized in Frensham from 1755 to 1763.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for John Craft and Elizabeth Radford on 18 November 1773 in Frensham, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 for the marriage of John Craft and Elizabeth Radford on 18 November 1773 at Frensham St Mary. "[No.] 128 Banns of Marriage between John Craft of this Parish and Elizabeth Radford of the Parish of Kingsley in Hants have been regularly published in this Church on Three Several Sundays pursuant to the Act of Parliment relating thereto [...] Nov: 18th 1773.
John Craft of this Parish and Elizabeth Radford of the Parish of Kingsley in Hants were married in this Church by Banns of this Eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven and seventy three [... he signed his name, she made her mark] In the Presence of John Marchmant [and] Austin Crofter".
His six children were baptised in Frensham from 1777 to 1796.
His wife, surname Croft, was buried at Frensham but of Headley on 13 November 1828 aged 82.
In the 1841 census as John Crawte (sic - on the original) aged 90, not born in Hampshire, and living with Stephen Crawte (son?), Sarah (daughter-in-law?), George, James, John, Stephen and William (grandsons?) and Mary and Sarah (granddaughters?) in Whitmore Bottom, Headley, Hampshire.
Death of John Craft in FreeBMD in April-June 1841 in Farnham (4 106).
Entry in Headley Burials for John Craft of Whitmore Bottom on 10 June 1841 aged 89.
John Craft was my fourth great grandfather.
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