When Elizabeth Margaret Craig was born on 23 July 1872, in Rokewood, Victoria, Australia, her father, Thomas Craig, was 46 and her mother, Mary Augusta Smith, was 37. She married Robert Faragher on 3 August 1892, in Kingston, Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 1 March 1948, in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 75, and was buried in Koroit, Victoria, Australia.
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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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