When Walter Cranston was born in 1735, in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, Walter Cranston, was 31 and his mother, Hope Moon, was 23. He married Elizabeth Manchester on 25 July 1768, in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States.
Scottish: habitational name from the barony of Cranston, near Dalkeith (Midlothian), named from the genitive case of the Old English byname Cran meaning ‘crane’ + Old English tūn ‘settlement’.
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