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| | Clan Crawford |
 | | During the reign of William the Lion one Sir Reginald of Crawford was appointed Sheriff of Ayr, a demanding and powerful post which was one of the Offices of the Crown with administrative and financial duties as well as the responsibility for hearing appeals from Courts of Barony. |
 | | The second important marriage was that of Margaret Crawford, sister of the Sheriff of Ayr, in 1297; she married Sir Malcolm Wallace of Ellerslie and their son, William Wallace, was to prove himself as Scotland's greatest patriot. |
 | | George Crawford was on e of the fifty Scottish undertakers of the Ulster Plantation, and as a son-in law of one of the chief undertakers, Andrew Stewart, he was granted 1,000 acres adjacent to Stewart's portion in Mountjoy, co.Tyrone. |
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