Helen Craik was born in 1753, in Lintrathen, Forfarshire, Scotland as the daughter of John Craik and Margaret Graham. She married George Methven on 12 October 1773, in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters.
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Scottish: habitational name from Craik in Aberdeenshire, named from Gaelic creag ‘steep or precipitous rock’, or from various other places so named, for example in Angus, Dumfriesshire, Roxburghshire, and Selkirkshire.
English (Durham): variant of Crake, a habitational name from Crayke in the North Yorkshire, named with Primitive Welsh creig ‘rock, crag’ (Old Welsh creic, cognate with Gaelic craig).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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