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All Creswicks can be traced back to a hamlet in Ecclesfield Parish That source is Creswick Hamlet, a very small part of Ecclesfield Parish in South Yorkshire, now a part of Sheffield. Most Creswicks dispersed from Ecclesfield to Sheffield and then around the world.

I am Norman Froggatt; my mother was christened Mary CRESWICK at St. Mary’s Parish Church Bolsterstone in 1896, and married there to Sidney Froggatt in 1923. I have christened my branch of the family the “Ewden Lodge” branch to identify it, because Ewden Lodge Farm is where my ancestors lived for about 300 years.

There are many people busily investigating our name worldwide, and we are all especially grateful to one person. Donald Thompson. He was, like me, a Sheffielder. He married Kathleen Creswick and investigated her Creswick roots for many years, making extensive use of the research facilities of Sheffield Library and Archives. Sadly, he died several years ago. Donald’s daughter and son in law, Ann and Stuart Barratt continue with his work. Sheffield Archives and Central Library already store some of his records. Many people rely on his data, which he was always very willing to share. Among the researchers who are contributing data are: Sandra Adams, Jean Creswick, Jocelyn Gibson, Kate Hardcastle, Jean Smithson, Martin Norman and Elizabeth Brownhill.

How you spell the name CRESWICK? Criswick, Cresswick, Craisewyke, Cresek, - the list could go on. How do you pronounce the name? Most people seem to say Crez-wick, and that is perhaps the best modern way, but I never knew of that pronunciation until I was in my late ‘teens. My family lived in the Stocksbridge/ Bolsterstone area, within the original Ecclesfield parish, and we always said Crezick. I still use that normally, though I rarely hear it from others. This shows how easy it must have been for clerics to use numerous spellings as they recorded the parish registers of birth, marriage and burial. Ordinary folk were probably illiterate and likely to use differing pronunciations. Some of my proven ancestors are recorded under all sorts of spellings, so it seems pretty certain that we all come from one source.

I have been researching our name for several years and have gathered quite a body of data about several lines of the family. Some of them are from my own findings and some from other researchers. As work on the family continues, the trees of all branches will be added to this site, and kept up to date.

I have begun a One Name Study of the name Creswick, which means that I am interested in any and every reference to the name.. This includes all variants of the name, Criswick, Cresswyke or any similar spelling, in all years and world-wide. I too shall try to follow up the work done by Donald. Everything we learn will be saved for posterity through the Guild of One Name Studies (GOONS) and other archives. It can then build up the store of Creswick knowledge, and help all who wish to trace the name. The idea of this Web Page is to provide space where we can display and share such data as we collect and where anybody interested can contribute. If you send me family tree information, it will go on this site, but only with your permission. and respecting the privacy of people still alive..

Anybody interested in their Creswick ancestors is welcome to get in touch with me for help in their research. If you ask for help, please be sure to give all the detail you can. At least you will know something your closest ancestors, and what further connections you wish to make. Please include as much detail as you can – full names, dates and places of birth marriage or death; spouses and any other thing you know. More detail means more chance of success. It is wise to remember that data found on the Internet (and for that matter on IGI or any other secondary source) must be checked against original records, because it’s so easy to make mistakes when transcribing, typing out or recording in any way. Please do not assume that data you find here are infallible, but challenge anything which you disagree with or doubt.

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