Edwin Archibald Craig

Brief Life History of Edwin Archibald

When Edwin Archibald Craig was born in 1880, in Kingston, Victoria, Australia, his father, Thomas Craig, was 54 and his mother, Mary Augusta Smith, was 45. He died after 1908.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Craig
1826–1885
Mary Augusta Smith
1836–1908
John William Craig
1856–1939
Thomas George Craig
1858–1943
Maria Craig
1860–1908
Lydia Eleanor Craig
1862–1938
Ann Maria Craig
1864–1949
Rhoda Druscilla Craig
1867–1949
Abraham Walter Craig
1869–1946
Elizabeth Margaret Craig
1872–1948
Alfred Henry Craig
1874–1953
Robert Charles Craig
1878–1877
Edwin Archibald Craig
1880–1908

Sources (1)

  • Australian Vital Records Index 1788-1905 Birth Edwin Archibald Craig

World Events (3)

1892

Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.

1901

First Federal election.

1901

At the beginning of 1901, following a proclamation by Queen Victoria, Victoria ceased to be an independent colony and became a state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

Name Meaning

Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived near a steep or precipitous rock, Older Scots crag, craig. Compare the synonymous English Cragg .

Manx: either a shortened form of Gaelic Mac Concharraige ‘son of Cu Charraige (‘hound of the rock’) or possibly of Mac Thorveig ‘son of Thorveig’, from the Old Norse personal name Thórveig (from the god's name Thórr + veig ‘pith, strength’).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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