Margaret cragg

Female19 September 1847–12 November 1877

Brief Life History of Margaret

When Margaret cragg was born on 19 September 1847, in Warrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Titus Cragg, was 30 and her mother, Anne Birkett, was 30. She died on 12 November 1877, in Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 30.

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Family Time Line

Titus Cragg
1816–1857
Anne Birkett
1816–1886
James Cragg
1840–1882
David Cragg
1841–
Hannah Cragg
1843–
Martha Cragg
1846–1855
Alice Cragg
1846–
Margaret cragg
1847–1877
Elizabeth Cragg
1849–
Titus Cragg
1849–1851
Martha Ann Cragg
1853–1936

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    World Events (3)

    1848 · Slavery is Abolished

    Age 1

    In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.

    1854 · The Crimean War

    Age 7

    The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.

    1863

    Age 16

    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

    Name Meaning

    English:

    topographic name from Middle English crag, in surnames occasionally crak ‘crag, rock’, chiefly found in northwestern England. It is derived from Irish creag and was probably introduced from Ireland by Norwegian Vikings.

    (Suffolk): from Middle English crak (Old Norse krákr) ‘carrion crow’, sometimes voiced to crag.

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

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