Elizabeth Margaret Craig

Brief Life History of Elizabeth Margaret

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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Family Time Line

Robert Faragher
1865–1943
Elizabeth Margaret Craig
1872–1948
Marriage: 3 August 1892
Robert Reginald Faragher
1893–1973
Dulcie Mona Faragher
1894–1966
Thomas Craig Faragher
1896–1955
Stanley Gordon Faragher
1899–1910
Lilly Muriel Faragher
1901–1976

Sources (2)

  • Australian Vital Records Index 1788-1905 Birth Elizabeth Margaret Craig
  • Elizabeth Margaret Craig Faragher, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (7)

1877

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

1892

Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.

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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