AUCHENCRAW, Auchinchaw: From the lands now hamlet of Auchencraw in the parish of Coldingham, Berwickshire, locally pronounced Edencraw, and sometimes spelled Adincraw (compare Auchmoor in Fife, old Admore), In the time of William the Lion the place name was spelled Aldengrawe. Adam de Aldengraue appears as a charter witness in the reign of William the Lion (Coldingham, 153), and early in the thirteenth century Michael de Aldengrawe quit claimed to the priory and convent of Coldingham land in the vill of Aldecambus. Many individuals of the name are recorded in Home, passim. James of Aldincraw was one of an inquest anent a fishing on the Water of Tweed in 1407 (RD., 461), and Patrick Aldicraw was married in 1491 (Sc. Ant., III, p. 102). About the beginning of the sixteenth century the name began to be shortened to Craw and even sometimes spelled Crow (1648). In 1577 Alexander Auchincraw in Nether Aytoun and Henry Craw, his son, appear together as charter witnesses (Home, 208). Aldencraw 1298, Aldingcraw 1494, Aldincraw 1498, Aldyncraw 1529, Auchencraw 1510, Audincraw 1476, Awchincraw 1571. See Chaw.