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Spraklin, Peter Page 1
The following data is extracted from The ABC Family Chronicles.
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Apparently the name Spracklin had other forms: Spartling, Sprackling. In English or Welsh it meant "the one with the crooked legs." As far as known to the writer, some early Spracklins on English records were of the Canterbury Catholic Church, Canterbury, County Kent, England. The church records there show a Robert, baptized 1645, son of Spratling; Adam, baptized 1653, son of Robert Spratling. Heraldic arms were granted in 1619 to Leonardus Sprackling, Rob'tus Sprackling, and Adam Sprackling, of Thanet, Co. Kent.
Possibly this Robert Spracklin was an early ancestor of Peter Spracklin who came to America in 1823. Peter's youngest son George named one of his sons George Robert. The genealogy which follows begins with this Peter Spracklin who came in 1823--seven generations back from the author. The first Peter who came was a tanner--a job of preparing hides for shoes or boots which took 18 to 24 months to prepare.
Sources:
Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames by Bardsley p.10 Canterbury Catholic Church Records
Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Kent:
William Berry. London, 1830.
Arms created in 1619
for individual at that time.
Arms.--Sa, a saltier erm.
betw. four leopards' faces
or.
Crest.--An heraldic tiger's
24 head, erased, sa. ducally
gorged, maned, and armed,
or.
Source: The ABC Family Chronicles
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