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Author: meicalcrahart
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There's a myth going around that it's an English name derived from the Germanic
name Gerhart! However people who perpetuate this myth have no knowledge of the Cornish
place name. I've actually been there, there was once a an ancient (Iron age) Celtic
'round' a round wooden enclosure with a few thatched round-houses inside. The
place name Carhart means the fort (Ker)of the ram (Horth). Now theres only a disused Mill,
which on my last visit over ten years ago was being restored, a farm-house and a cottage.
My name is actually Crahart the name was changed as usual by a mispelling of Carhart by my
great-great-great grandfather, this is quite common in Cornwall where people use both
spellings, as well as a few others. The mispelling is due to both being pronounced the
same in the Cornish dialect as C'r'art (Kraat).
That being said during my research I've been unable to find an ancestral connection
with other 'Crahart' families I've discovered, such as the ones now living in
Orpingtion, Kent, England. Although I can with some 'Carhart' families.
We really could be related! Whats the earliest and last ancestor you can trace to
Cornwall?
Funnily enough I'm now working in Cardiff but my line manager sat right next to me is
surnamed 'Sweet'!!!
I'll try dig out a picture of the arms, it's on the net somewhere?
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