When Stewart Craig was born in 1858, his father, Robert Craig, was 47 and his mother, Mary, was 42. He married Maggie Young on 24 March 1887. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Lanark Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada in 1871. He died on 25 December 1892, in Hopetown, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 34, and was buried in Hopetown, Lanark, Ontario, Canada.
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On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
British Columbia joins the confederation.
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
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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