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Craig Genealogy

London is bigger but Biggar is better. (Old Craig family saying)
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Francis Gordon CRAIG Alison Ethel CRAIG Helen Elizabeth CRAIG Jennifer Bessie CRAIG	Alexander George Muir CRAIG b. 5 December 1890 at 5 Albion St. South Yarra, Bourke, Aust. Apiarist. m. 28 Aug. 1923 Waitotara, Whakatane. died 10 Oct. 1949 Stratford NZ	David Thorburn CRAIG Bessie BLUNT
	Lucy Helen PRIDEAUX Teacher. b. 27 June 1892 Maungaturoto NZ d. 4 July 1974 Auckland, NZ	Humphrey Arnold PRIDEAUX Ethel Miriam GIBSON

Sources: Birth Certs., Marriage Certs., Death Notices with Alison Clarke

Alexander George Muir CRAIG David CRAIG Lawrence R. CRAIG b 4 May No issue James CRAIG William CRAIG	David Thorburn CRAIG Joiner b. 22 May 1863, Symington, Lanarkshire, Scotland Married 27 Dec 1889 Landsdown St. St. Kilda, Melbourne, Aust d. 8 April 1929, Ngaere, NZ	William Clark CRAIG Catharine Sommerville THORBURN
Catharine CRAIG b 17 Jan 1900 No issue Elizabeth Marian CRAIG Mary Alexia CRAIG m. Fred BOWERS	Bessie BLUNT b. 12 Feb. 1863, Sydney, Australia d. 12 July 1959, Stratford, NZ	William BLUNT Captain & horse trader. Family legend has it that his wife died in childbirth. I have been unable to confirm any of this.

Death notices with Alison Clarke. Interred together at Eltham Cemetery. Stone in good condition.
Bessie's Grandmother ran an hotel in Sydney and looked after Bessie when William was at sea. William disappeared, presumed drowned. Grandma could not cope with the hotel and little Bessie so she sent her, at age 9, to live with sisters Polly and Kitty Muir in Auckland. Went to a Ladies School. (source: Tess Craig 27/4/1997)
"PEHIKURA" Farm. Home of Alexander ("Sandy") and Elizabeth Muir (nee Blunt) and family of ten plus two adopted nieces, Mary Muir daughter of John Muir and Bessie Blunt (Both lost mothers at birth) From this it would appear that Polly and Kitty were related, by marriage, to Bessie. Could they have been sisters of Sandy and John?
David Thorburn Craig's birth cottage still stands in Symington and has been visited by Lindsay. Early photo of cottage, Marriage Cert., Bessie's death notice with Lindsay.

	William Clark CRAIG Farmer, Annieston, Lanarkshire, Scotland b. 12 July 1834	Robert CRAIG Jemima CLARK
Robert CRAIG b. 1856 d. 30 Mar 1857 age 10 mths James McLean CRAIG b. 1858, Symington d. 24 July 1923, Papakura, New Zealand Marion McLean CRAIG b. 1859, Symington Spinster d. 7 Feb 1938, Papakura, New Zealand Jemima Clarke CRAIG b. 1860 d. 17 Jan 1861 age 5 mths	1) Mary McLEAN b. 1828 d. 22 March 1861 age 33 yrs Interred at Biggar Churchyard.
David Thorburn CRAIG Jemima Clarke CRAIG b. Jan 1865 Moved to Australia. John CRAIG b. 30 Jan 1866 d. 28 Feb 1866 age 29 days Jane Cleghorn CRAIG b. May 1867 d. 1 Dec 1911 age 44 yrs Henry Riddell CRAIG b. abt 1869 Chemist. Moved to Bristol, Connecticut, USA Andrew Thorburn CRAIG b. 1870 d. 10 July 1871 age 9 mths Jessie Brown CRAIG b. abt 1872 Robert Ainslie CRAIG b. abt 1874 Elizabeth Alexander CRAIG b. June 1877 d. 1 July 1878 age 12 mths James Thorburn CRAIG b. abt 1879 William Clark CRAIG b. Sept 1881 d. 5 May 1885 age 3 yrs 8 mths Edward Jackson CRAIG b. abt 1883	2) Catharine Sommerville THORBURN c. 18 Mar 1842, Symington, Lanarkshire, Scotland m. 12 Aug 1862, Symington, Lanarkshire, Scotland d. 1885 aged 42 yrs. Interred at Biggar Churchyard. There was some speculation that she was the wife about whom it was said that her death was "mysterious", causing the authorities of the time to have her body exhumed. Other members of her family are said to have been easily upset. One died tragically by his own hand as a result of his volatile nature.	David THORBURN Flour miller?? Symington Jean CLEGHORN
Agnes Cleghorn CRAIG b. abt 1888	3) Catherine Somerville CLEGHORN m. abt 1887 (May have been a servant at Annieston and probably related to the second wife, Catharine.)

William became a farmer, particularly on the farm known as Annieston, close to Symington and about 3 miles west of Biggar. This farm is of gently rolling fertile land and among the buildings there is still an undershot waterwheel which perhaps ground the flour for the bakery in the days when the Craig family were the owners. William may have inherited the farm, at age 19, on the death of his father. A small part of the farm has been subdivided as a residential street. Annieston Place. Close by is a Motte, the remains of a defensive position consisting of a small conical hill built by the labour of Norman soldiers which would have had a little wooden fort at the top.

Possibility: Jean CLEGHORN
Christening: 26 Jan 1812, Symington, Lanark, Scotland
Father: John CLEGHORN
Mother: Catherine. I suspect her name may have been Catherine Sommerville, and probably descended from Alexander Sommerville (born around 1704 in Midlothian) and Ann Scott. There were plenty of Sommervilles in Lanark. There is a Catharine Sommerville, born 21 Oct 1794 in Dalkeith, Midlothian.

Carnwath is home to a number of sites of historic interest. On the golf course, there is a striking motte (or castle mound) dating to the twelfth century. The motte and St. Mary's Aisle (1424) were built by the Somerville family.

John CRAIG
b. July 1827
d. 14 Jan 1828 age 6 mths
John CRAIG
b. Dec 1828
d. 11 July 1829 age 8 mths
Janet CRAIG
b. 30 Apr 1830
Robert CRAIG
Baker
b. 1786
m. early 1826, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland
d. 6 Jan 1852 John CRAIG
Jean IRELAND

Jessie Brown CRAIG
b. 1831
m. Edward JACKSON, 1859, Little Well, Lanarkshire, Scotland
d. 1911, Interred at Newlands, Peebleshire, Scotland
William Clark CRAIG
Elizabeth CRAIG
b. 2 July 1837, Netherwell, Biggar
Thought to be a twin of William.
m. Lawrence Oliphant ROY abt 1859 and went to New Zealand shortly after. Interred at Papakura.
Robert CRAIG
b. 10 Oct 1835
Jane Ireland CRAIG
b. 5 Aug 1831, Netherwell, Scotland
m. Henry ALEXANDER, 11 June 1861, Papakura, New Zealand
d. 1905 Both interred at Waipipi, New Zealand
Jemima CLARK
b. 1799
d. 6 June 1884, New Zealand
After her son William's first wife died, Jemima took two of his children to New Zealand about 1864. On 17 July 1863 in Shepherd's Bush, near Bombay, she had a bullet pass through her shawl when a Maori war party attacked a convoy of carts she was travelling with. She was with Jane and Henry Alexander and their baby, Frederick William CLARK
Merchant
b. 1753
m. abt 1782
d. 1807
Janet BROWN
b. 1755
d. 1824
Stone in Biggar Churchyard to William, Janet, son Alexander and daughter Elizabeth.
See a Brown family from Carnwath

There are many Browns in Lucy Helen Prideaux's birthday book. Were they related? Did she know they were related? Jemima died in NZ, so there is a possibility that Alex knew if there was a relationship.

Marion CRAIG
b. 1778
d. 19 Jan 1829
Robert CRAIG
John CRAIG
Baker
b. 1743, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland
m. abt 1776
d. 15 Dec 1827
Interred at Biggar Churchyard. Robert CRAIG
Agnes AINSLIE

Jean (Jane) IRELAND
b. 1746
d. 17 Nov 1787

Marion was 9 years old when her mother died and probably became of the utmost importance to the household, looking after her baby brother and maintaining a home for the family.

John CRAIG
(third son) Baker
b. 1743 Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland
d. 17 Nov 1827 Robert CRAIG
Baxter (baker)
m. 1731, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland
d. abt 1809

Agnes AINSLIE

1713 Thomas Carmchael born. By early 1745 he had married a Miss Violet Craig. Possibly a sister of Robert. Thomas died 11 Nov 1749. Interred at Biggar Churchyard.
1680 First title to the town section at 131 High Street, Biggar where the bakery was built. This is the present 131-133 High Street. These were rebuilt, probably by the Craigs in the 1835-1845 period. The house upstairs is now entered from a small square behind and has been somewhat altered. The bakehouses in the square are all reorganised into houses and stores and probably bear little resemblance to what they were like in the Craigs day.
Over the years there was much acquisition of property, fields around Biggar and the farm of Annieston at Symington, about three miles west of Biggar. The house is Victorian, but built on old foundations.
Little Well, now Annavale, another family property, is just north of Biggar and was formerly a croft with houses for workers. All of these are knocked into one now.
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Marion CRAIG b. 1778 d. 19 Jan 1829 Robert CRAIG	John CRAIG Baker b. 1743, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland m. abt 1776 d. 15 Dec 1827 Interred at Biggar Churchyard.	Robert CRAIG Agnes AINSLIE
	Jean (Jane) IRELAND b. 1746 d. 17 Nov 1787

John CRAIG (third son) Baker b. 1743 Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland d. 17 Nov 1827	Robert CRAIG Baxter (baker) m. 1731, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland d. abt 1809
	Agnes AINSLIE