David Crenshaw      

Crenshaw Tree

Son of Joseph Crenshaw (1698-1758) and Sarah Jennings Dabney (1699-1760) from Hanover, Virginia?
or John Thomas Crenshaw (1695-1716) and Sarah Jennings Dabney (D'Aubigne)? from Lunenburg, Virginia?

Born: 1715, Hanover, Virginia
Died: 1778, Hanover, Virginia

Married: "Mrs. David Crenshaw" in 1730

Children:
1. Elkanah (b. 1730, Hanover, Virginia, d. 1785, Amelia, Virginia) (m. Mary Winston; 3 sons)
2. Charles Edwin (b. 1731, d. 1790) (m. Sarah Bacon 1759)

Married: Susannah Moore (1723-1779) in 1740, Hanover, Virginia

Children:
3. Nicholas (m. Ellen Green)
4. David (m. Jane Waddy; no children)
5. William (m. Susanna; 6 daughters and 4 sons)

See hand written lineage, pages 1 and 2
Came to the new world with his brother John
Crawshay family spelling?
Did they come from Cafarthfa, Wales?
Note: "It was a family tradition that the Crenshaws came from Wales."
Did David come from Wales, go back, and come again?
Or were they from Cranshaw's Church, Scotland? "Historically, the name Cranshaw was to be found in the Lammermuir Hills in Scotland, suggesting the possiblity that the progenitors of the Crenshaw family were from that region." ---Margaret E. Crenshaw (1849-1940)