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Crawa

Discussion of the name

Crawa is probably an otherwise unrecorded Old English masculine name derived from crāwa ‘raven’, although the possibility that all occurrences in fact refer to the closely-related feminine name Crawe derived from OE crāwe ‘crow’ cannot be ruled out because inflectional endings are not consistently rendered in late spellings.

There are no pre-Domesday occurrences of this name in the PASE corpus; but it may be relevant that Crawe 1, a kinswoman of Ælfflæd 13 and granted lands at Neding and Waldingfield in Suffolk in the latter’s will, probably in the late tenth century. It is notable that each place certainly associated with the names Crawa and Crawe lies less than 16 miles from all the others.

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Crawa

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Crāwa

  Phillimore edition: Crawa

  Alecto edition: Crawa

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 25,78	Vill Stansfield	DB Spelling Crawa	Holder 1066 Crawa 'of Stansfield'	Lord 1066 Wihtgar son of Ælfric	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard fitzGilbert	1086 Subtenant Roger 'the man of Richard fitzGilbert'	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.75	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Crawa 2 - Crawa ‘of Stansfield’ (Suff.), fl. 1066