Margaret Craig (1820 - 1887)

Born 1820 in Beith, Ayr, Scotland

Ancestors

Died 16 Dec 1887 at about age 67 in Beith, Ayr, Scotland

Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Census

Census:

Date: 1871

Place: 6 Main Street, Kilbirnie

Census:

Date: 1841

Place: Gateside, Beith, Ayrshire

Census:

Date: 1881

Place: Cochrane Street, Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, Scotland

Note

Note: #N315

PHOTO

PHOTO @M531@

Object

Object: @M515@

Object: @M531@

Object: @M532@

Object: @M533@

Object: @M534@

Sources

1. ↑ Craig-4103 was created by David Craig through the import of CRAIG-2015_2015-07-25_01.ged on Jul 25, 2015. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.

Notes

Note N315Margaret was born in Beith in 1820. No record of her birth has been found on LDS or SRO records. However, census and other data confirm her year and place of birth.

The 1841 census finds Margaret and her family living at Gateside, Beith. The census simply lists Margaret as aged 15 (+/- 5 as normal for the 1841 census). Parents Robert (a Grocer, aged 50 +/-5) and Margaret aged 40 (+/-5) are also present, plus siblings Robert 15 (+/-5) and Jean (11). All were born in Beith. No occupations are listed for anyone other that father Robert.

The 1871 census finds Margaret living with her father, brother, sister and nephew at 6 Main Street, Kilbirnie, Ayrshire. She is described as aged 49, unmarried, no occupation listed, born in Beith. Also in the house are father Robert, Head of Household, aged 84, spirits dealer and a widower; brother Robert, aged 45, widower, occupation Pit Head Man, born in Beith; sister Ann, aged 47, unmarried, no occupation listed, born in Beith; and nephew (Robert's son) James, aged 5, born in Kilbirnie.

The 1881 census finds Margaret living with her brother Robert and his son James at Cochrane Street, Kilbirnie. Margaret is listed as head of the household, and is described as unmarried and aged 55.

Robert, aged 52, is described as a general labourer. James is described as aged 15, scholar, and nephew to Margaret. The census confirms that Margaret and Robert were born in Beith, and James in Kilbirnie.

Margaret died on 16th December 1887 just 9 days before her brother Robert also died. Her inventory and will have been found and are reproduced below. She was a reasonably wealthy woman. The Will confirms that she remained unmarried throughout her life and never had any children.

Inventory and Will follow.....

Inventory Umql Margaret Craig

At Ayr the fifteenth day of February Eighteen hundred and eighty eight years. Compeared Love & Williamson Writers in Beith, who produced inventory of the personal estate of the deceased Margaret Craig after designed, and of which Inventory the tenor follows:

Inventory of the Personal Estate wheresoever situated of Margaret Craig, residing in Cochrane Street, Kilbirnie, who died there on the sixteenth day of December Eighteen hundred and eighty seven.

Scotland

Personal Property

1. Household furniture, Wearing Apparel and other effects which belonged to the deceased conform to Appraisement £ 21 0s 11d

2. Principal sum in Deposit Receipt dated 9th August 1997 by the Clydesdale Bank Limited at Kilbirnie in favour of the deceased £30 0s 0d

Interest thereon to date of death 5s 3d

Do. To date of oath to Inventory 1s 11d

£ 30 7s 2d

3. Debts due to the deceased upon the following documents vrft.

(1) Acknowledgement or I.O.U. by William MacHattie Spirit Dealer Kilbirnie to the deceased dated 12th November 1886 for £200

Interest thereon to date of death 15s 4d

Do. To date of oath to Inventory £1 4s 6d

£ 201 19s 10d

(2) Bond and Disposition in Security granted by James Mackie Contractor in Kilbirnie in favour of Mrs Janet Stirrat or Carsewell residing in Dalry, widow of Robert Carsewell Writer in Glasgow and others as Trustees of the said deceased Robert Carsewell dated 30th January and recorded in the Particular Register of Sasines for Ayrshire 2nd February both in the year 1869 over subjects in Main Street Kilbirnie. And to which Bond and Disposition in Security the deceased acquired right by virtue of (1) Assignation by the said Janet Stirrat or Carsewell and others as Trustees foresaid in favour of John Knox, Manufacturer in Glasgow, dated 25th and recorded in the division of the General Register of Sasines for Ayrshire 29 September 1874 and (2) Assignation by the said John Knox in favour of the deceased (therein designed Spirit Dealer in Kilbirnie) dated 3rd and seconded in the said division of the General Register of Sasines 8th February 1877 £350

Interest thereon to date of death £ 1 6s 10d

Do. To date of oath to Inventory £2 2s 11d

£ 353 9s 9d

(3) Bond and Disposition in Security granted by the said James Mackie in favour of the said John Knox dated 28th and recorded in the said Division of the General Register of Sasines 29 September 1874 over the same subjects and to which Bond and Disposition in Security the deceased acquired right conform to the said Assignation by the said John Knox in her favour dated and recorded as aforesaid £450

Interest thereon to date of death £ 1 14s 6d

Do. To date of oath to Inventory £ 2 15s 2d

£ 454 9s 8d

£ 807 19s 5d

Amount of Personal Estate the whole of which is situated in Scotland

£ 1061 7s 4d

(Signed) Jean McHattie, RW Knox J.P. At Kilbirnie the Thirteenth day of February Eighteen hundred and eighty eight. In presence of Robert William Knox Esquire, One of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the County of Ayr. Appeared Mrs. Jean Craig or McHattie, wife of William McHattie, Spirit Dealer Kilbirnie, executor dative of the deceased Margaret Craig, residing in Cochrane Street Kilbirnie, who being solemnly sworn and examined depones that the said Margaret Craig died at Kilbirnie domiciled in Ayrshire upon the sixteenth day of December Eighteen hundred and eighty seven, unmarried and without leaving lawful issue. That the deponent has entered upon the possession and management of her personal or moveable estate ad executor dative qua nearest in kin. That the deponent knows of no Testamentary Settlement or other writing left by the deceased relative to the disposal of her Personal Estate or Effects or any part thereof. That the foregoing Inventory signed by the deponent and the said Justice of the Peace as relative hereto, is a full and complete Inventory of the Personal Estate and Effects of the said deceased Margaret Craig wheresoever situated and belonging or due to her beneficially at the time of her death in so far as the same has come to the deponents knowledge. That the deponent does not know of any money or property belonging to the deceased secured by Scottish Bonds or other Instruments excluding executors. That the said deceased had no heritable Estate in this country in so far as known to the deponent. That the value at this date of the said Personal Estate and Effects situated in Scotland, including the proceeds accrued thereon down to this date is One thousand pounds sterling, and does not exceed One thousand one hundred pounds sterling. That confirmation of the said Personal Estate is required in favour of the Deponent. All which is true as the Deponent shall answer to God (signed) Jean McHattie, RW Knox J.P. Written by Thomas Traill. Collated by Robert Goudie.

Details from the above regarding Margaret, Jean (Jane) McHattie (nee Craig), William McHattie, Janet Carsewell (nee Stirrat) and James Carsewell all tie up across the family information from other sources.

Margaret is buried in the Old Head Street Cemetary in Beith. There is a Craig family gravestone, erected by her brother Robert, which reads as follows:

Erected

By

ROBERT CRAIG

In memory of his father

ROBERT CRAIG

Died 11th May 1879

Aged 91 years

And his mother

Margaret Caldwell

Died 27th July 1860

Aged 63 years

Ann Craig

Died 24th March 1876

Aged 53 years

Jane Kennedy

Died 21st March 1866

Aged 26 years

Robert Craig

Died 27th September 1868

Aged 4 years

Margaret Craig

Died 16th December 1887

Aged 67 years

Also the above

Robert Craig

Died 25th December 1887

Aged 62 years

His brother in law

William McHattie

Died 11 February 1900

Aged 78 years

Also his wife

Jane Craig

Died 28 February 1905

Aged 71 years

This one gravestone gives a link to a part of the family which was completely unknown about. Details of that family have now been added to the family tree.