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Crabtree Origins and Migration
Mr. Peter Crabtree of Ontario, Canada, has researched all available English
records and determined that a John and Magota de Crabtre, who purchased
land known as Blyndeshagh near Sowerby in Yorkshire, England, in 1388, first
used the Crabtree surname continually. Later descendants dropped the “de”
and added the second “e” to Crabtre. All Crabtrees are descended from this
couple, as there is no evidence that anyone else used the surname Crabtree
continually before John and Magota.
There is a family “legend” that the Crabtrees fled the English County of Suffolk
in the late 1300s to escape religious persecution and settled in Yorkshire.
Usually, there is some truth in family legends, although the details may have
become altered over time. Experts doubt the bit about religious persecution
and believe they may have left Suffolk as a result of widespread rioting,
property damage and murder of various Lords in June/July of 1381. This event
is known as “Wat Tyler's Rebellion” or the “Peasants' Revolt of 1381.” At any
event, the destruction of records of who was bound to which Lord of the Manor
would have been the perfect excuse for commoners to leave Suffolk and settle
elsewhere, with no fear of being identified by the law.
If it is true that the Crabtrees (who may not have used that surname prior to
1388) left Suffolk, then it seems very likely that the male ancestral line of our
Crabtree ancestors would have been one of three ethnic groups: (1) The Celts,
who arrived in Suffolk in about 75 B.C., (2) the Angles, who invaded and
assimilated the Celts there in about the year 430 A.D., and finally (3) the
Danish Vikings, who invaded England in 865 A.D. and settled there after being
defeated by the Saxon King of England, Alfred the Great.
Mr. Jerry Crabtree of Llano, Texas, one of the foremost experts on Crabtree
genealogy, had his DNA screened as part of the National Geographic Society
sponsored worldwide DNA study. He sent in a cheek swab for DNA analysis of
the Y-chromosome to determine if that would identify the Crabtree male
ancestral line. This study, known as the Genographic Project, endeavors to
determine where the various ethnic groups originated, where and when they
migrated, and where they finally settled. The results came back at the end of
January 2008 and revealed the Crabtree male ancestral line is Danish Vikings.
Briefly, the Genographic Project, found that all white males today descend from
a single white man who lived about 50,000 years ago in or near what is now
the Rift Valley of Ethiopia. About 40,000 years ago, his descendants began to
migrate northerly through the Near East, splitting into various groups as they
traveled. Our group then turned westward and migrated along the
Mediterranean Sea until they reached what is now southwestern France about
20,000 years ago. There they stayed until the last Ice Age ended and the
glaciers, which covered northern Europe, began to recede. At about 15,000
years ago they migrated along the Atlantic seaboard into western Scandinavia
(Denmark and Norway).
The Norwegian Vikings raided and settled in northern and western Scotland,
and to a lesser extent, in Ireland (the city of Dublin was founded by Norwegian
Vikings). The Danish Vikings raided and settled along the east coast of
England, as far south at Suffolk. So we can safely assume that our male
Crabtree line descends from a Danish Viking who arrived in England about 870
A.D. (give or take 5 years) and probably took an Anglo-Celtic woman for a wife.
Your Crabtree Y-chromosome DNA will be the same as Jerry’s; this is your
Crabtree heritage also.
Source - Jerry Hogan Crabtree
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