When William Aston Crabtree was born on 22 October 1850, in Birkenhead St Mary, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles S. Crabtree, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Aston, was 21. He married Laura Marinda Woods on 16 October 1876, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861. He died on 12 September 1927, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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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