When John Crabtree was born on 16 November 1819, in Nine Elms, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joshua Crabtree, was 35 and his mother, Louisa 'Lucy' Crabtree, was 31. He married Rebecca Coartley on 28 November 1840, in Shadwell St Paul, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Ipswich St Mary Stoke, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Monkwearmouth, Durham, England, United Kingdom in 1871. In 1851, at the age of 32, his occupation is listed as engineer.
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English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from a lost place in Sowerbyshire, Yorkshire named Crabtree, named from Middle English crabbetre ‘crab-apple tree’. In some instances possibly a topographic name for someone who lived by a crab-apple tree.
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