When John William Croft was born in 1857, in Candlesby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Croft, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Coxon, was 27. He married Mary Ann West on 23 May 1878, in East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Skirbeck Quarter, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Wilsford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom for about 20 years. He died on 7 June 1950, in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 93, and was buried in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.
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English: habitational name from any of several places, for example in Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Herefordshire, and North Yorkshire, all named with Old English croft ‘small arable enclosure (normally adjoining a house)’, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a croft, from Middle English croft.
English: possibly in some cases a variant of Craft 2.
Americanized form of German, Danish, Swedish, or Jewish Kraft . Compare Kroft and Craft .
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