Alfred Henry Craig

Brief Life History of Alfred Henry

When Alfred Henry Craig was born in 1874, in Kingston, Victoria, Australia, his father, Thomas Craig, was 48 and his mother, Mary Augusta Smith, was 39. He married Jemima Alice Bowden in 1897, in Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 29 December 1953, in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 79, and was buried in Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.

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Family Time Line

Alfred Henry Craig
1874–1953
Jemima Alice Bowden
1877–1959
Marriage: 1897
Mary Ivy Craig
1897–1978
Alice Louisa Craig
1899–1971
Harry Bowden Craig
1901–1939
Alfred Henry Craig
1905–1970
Alan Walter Craig
1908–1909
Ronald Charles Craig
1915–1972
Norman George Craig
1920–1987

Sources (4)

  • Australian Vital Records Index 1788-1905 Birth Alfred Henry Craig
  • Alfred Henry Craig, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Alfred H Craig, "Australia, Victoria, Petty Sessions Registers, 1858-1985"

World Events (8)

1877

Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.

1892

Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.

1901

First Federal election.

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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