Zepherin Desrois
F, b. 21 August 1862, d. 19 March 1944
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Calixte Desrois
M
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Anastasie Menard
F
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Glenn Noel Sullivan
M
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Mary Craigie
F, b. 28 July 1822, d. 6 February 1893
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| Birth* | Mary Craigie was born on 28 July 1822 in Eday, Orkney, ScotlandG. |
| Marriage* | She married first James Liddle, son of James Liddle and Charlotte Leask, on 24 January 1867 in Kirkwall, Orkney, ScotlandG. |
| Marriage* | She married second James Harrold, son of John Harrold and Margaret Corston, on 27 April 1869 in Kirkwall, Orkney, ScotlandG.1 |
| Death* | Mary died on 6 February 1893 in Kirkwall, Orkney, ScotlandG. |
Citations
- Ancestry, http://www.ancestry.com, (Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910, second marriage to Mary Liddle).
Steven Paul Folkins
M
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Katharine Elizabeth White
F
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Jacob Braun
M
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| Birth* | Jacob Braun was born. |
| Marriage* | He married Mary Pfister. |
Mary Pfister
F
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| Birth* | Mary Pfister was born. |
| Marriage* | She married Jacob Braun. |
Tyler John Sullivan
M
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Granville D. Sawyer
M, b. 1827, d. 1867
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Cordelia Gould Goding
F, b. 1827, d. 1900
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Michael G. Macauley
M
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| Birth* | Michael G. Macauley was born. |
Mary A. ??
F
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| Birth* | Mary A. ?? was born. |
Jonathan Michael Hodgin
M
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Unknown Craigie
M
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| He was of Hullion in Rousay. Proof of the link between this individual and his son Magnus is set forth on a scroll as birth-brieve for Henry Sutherland, a great-grandson of Magnus. As to his own parentage, the source that states it says only that he is "seemingly" son of Magnus of Brugh. What exactly this "birth-brieve" states is unknown by this writer, and needs to be checked. It may very well state that Henry Sutherland was a descendant of an unknown son of Magnus of Brugh, in which case the link may be considered a distinct possibility. We would have to assume that Henry was aware of his own great-great-great grandfather. While such knowledge would be considered suspect today, it may very well have been possible in earlier times when many Orkney folk could recite their ancestries by heart.
Unfortunately the link between the earlier Cragys of Brugh and the later Craigies of Gairsay and Saviskaill may very well fail at this point. Clouston writes of this missing link that Magnus Craigie of Papdale, the head of the Gairsay line, may have been identical with Magnus, son of Henry, this Henry possibly being brother to Magnus of Brough. "On the other hand" he writes, "a note shown me by Mr. W. Traill suggested a possibility of their descent from the family of Banks (in Frotoft), who most probably were descended from one of the three roithmen of 1514. |
Magnus Cragy
M, d. by 1584
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| Marriage* | He married Margaret Sinclair, daughter of Sir James Sinclair and Barbara Stewart, circa 1560.1 |
| Death* | Magnus Cragy died by 1584. |
| Magnus lived at Brugh, in Rousay, acquired from his father. By 1556 his fortunes seemed to have waned because on 4 July 1556 he sold Brugh to Magnus Halcro, a controversial clergyman of the day. He sold it with the "fortalice" and head-house (capitale messuagium), mill and the right of patronage of the chapel of St. Christopher in the Cathedral of St. Magnus, to his kinsman Magister Magnus Halcro, precentor or chantor of the Cathedral--a cleric whose career, if not altogether exemplary, was perhaps only too typical of churchmen of that time. Of this conveyance Hugh Marwick writes, "The reference to the 'fortalice' in the 1556 Charter is puzzling. Mr. Clouston was disposed to believe that the reference was the 'Wirk' at Skaill near by, but Skaill was Bishopric property and not Magnus Craigie's to sell. There is no trace at Brough today of any building that could be termed a 'fortalice,' unless it may be the broch foundations which are yet to be seen (partly eroded by the sea) at the cliff edge between the houses of Brough and the beach. It is possible that sufficient of that old place of defence was still extant to be utilized or adapted as a fortalice."
Of this sale another source states that the land was conveyed back to him by Magnus Halcro. It says that on 26 July and 18 November 1555 he conveyed Brugh to Magnus Halcro, who re-conveyed it to Magnus Craigie on 8 July 1556. Stuart states that after 1556 the Craigies remained in residence, but not as owners.
During this time period the Reformation in Scotland was about to arrive and Magnus moved with the times. "In 1560, the very year of the Reformation, he secured from the Bishop and chapter a tack of the Bishopric lands in Rousay, including the lands of Inner Westness and all the lands of Sorwick (Sourin), and he quickly celebrated his legal release from celibacy by marrying no less a lady than Margaret Sinclair, daughter and heiress of Sir James Sinclair (of Summerdale fame) and his spouse -- Barbara Stewart, daughter of the first Lord Ochiltree. (Margaret was already married to a man James Tulloch, but as to how that knot was untied we unfortunately lack information.) After Magnus's death, his Brough property was 'adjudged' in a suspicious manner to Earl Robert Stewart in 1584 for alleged arrears of dues by the widow and other heirs, and in 1586 the Earl assigned 500 marks from the lands of Brough and Eynhallow to Marjory Sandilands--a Caithness woman who had borne him three illegitimate sons. By 1593, however, Brough was again in possession of the Halcros, and remained so (I think) until it was disponed to the Traills in the 17th century." The Craigie family remained at Brugh as tenants through all of this.
On 13 February 1564 Magnus assented to the conveyance by his brother, Henry, of the latter's share of Brugh to their brother-in-law William Halcro of Aikers, and also his share of Tenston in Sandwick.
A Sir Magnus Cragy, called "vicar of Rousay" witnessed a disposition of lands in Deerness on 27 April 1531. On 5 July 1561 a Magnus Craigie witnessed a disposition of lands in Deerness and Sandwick.
The three children listed below, two of them unnamed, may or may not have been with his wife Margaret Sinclair, and the source that lists them says: "Issue, seemingly:". It is also possible that these are the three illegitimate sons born with Marjory Sandilands as described above. There is obviously some doubt as to the family lineage at this point. |
Citations
- Hugh Marwick, The Place-Names of Rousay (Livingston, West Lothian: Brinnoven, 1993, c1947), p.29.
Margaret Sinclair
F
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Citations
- Hugh Marwick, The Place-Names of Rousay (Livingston, West Lothian: Brinnoven, 1993, c1947), p.29.
Sir James Sinclair
M
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| Birth* | Sir James Sinclair was born. |
Barbara Stewart
F
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| Birth* | Barbara Stewart was born. |
James Cragy
M, d. before 1564
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| Marriage* | He married Margaret Stewart.1 |
| Death* | James died before 1564.2 |
| James was owner of Brugh, in Rousay, inherited from his father. On 7 June 1529 he fought at the battle of Summerdale, in Stenness, at which forces loyal to rival Sinclair cousins fought for control of the Orkney Earldom. Craigie fought with the victorious forces of James Sinclair against an invading army from Caithness led by William Sinclair and his relative -- John, Earl of Caithness. The Caithness forces had the blessing of the King of Scotland but were nevertheless defeated by the Orkney defenders and slaughtered almost to a man. When the King forgave the victors and granted amnesty to many of the Orkney men on 19 September 1539, more than ten years later, James Craigie was included. Also included in the victorious Orkney force were John Cragy, of Banks, Rousay, William Cragy, and Gilbert Cragy, whose relationship to this family is unknown.
On 5 July 1530 he deeded a fourpenny land in Housegarth, Sandwick, to his sister Marion and her husband John Cromarty. In the deed he also mentions his deceased sister Barbara, as well as his deceased parents Johne Cragy, Lawman and Cristane Halcro.
On 11 July 1543 he witnessed a land disposition in Tankerness in which he is referred to as "ane honorabill man". On 28 October 1544 he witnessed the Deed of Erection of the St. Magnus Cathedral in which certain officers in the church were elected. He was deceased before 6 May 1546.
There was an Agnes Cragy of Brough, whose relationship to this family can be presumed but not proven, who married James Louttit II of Lyking, Sandwick, possibly a son of the John Louttit who was at Summerdale. She was deceased by December 1579 when their sons John and Magnus Louttit made an agreement concerning the estate of their father, who may or may not have been deceased at the time but was, at the very least, somehow incapacitated. Agnes also had a daughter Marjory Louttit who filed some kind of marriage papers with William Sinclair of Stank on 24 June 1580 at Quhome, Stromness.
Of the five children listed below only Boniface is not included in Clouston's "Cragy of Brough" genealogy chart. The other source adds Boniface at the end of a list of four children, which does not include David. The mother of these children is indicated here to be Margaret Stewart, her name taken from a disposition between her son Henry and his sister Margaret in which he refers to James Cragy of Brough and Margaret Stewart, "my parents". As to whether or not she is his birth mother, or the birth mother of his siblings for that matter, is unknown, despite it being indicated as so in this genealogy. |
Citations
- Ed. J. Storer Clouston., Records of the Earldom of Orkney, 1299-1614 (Edinburgh: University Press, 1914), p.277, 436.
- "Orcadian Families: The Craigie Lineage", Manuscript no. D29-1-3, Orkney Archives, p.3.
John Cragy
M, d. by June 1514
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| Marriage* | He married Cristane Halcro.1 |
| Death* | John Cragy died by June 1514. He is refered to as the late John of Craigie in June 1514.2 |
| John was, like his purported father, Lawman of Orkney from at least 1495 to 1509. This is shown by his name and seal being on a number of decrees and dispositions during those years. His seal is described as "on a fess, between six stars (three in chief and three in base), 3 crescents. Slanting lines at top and sides of shield. Legend illegible, diameter 1 inch." An Alexander Cragy, relationship unknown, was witness to one of these documents on 25 July 1495.
In the rental of the parish of St. Cross, Sanday, on 10 June 1502, he is noted as odaller of 3d. land in Housgarth; in that of South Sandwick, 4 March 1503, "Johne of Cragy, 'and the laif of the uthale men' withheld part of the scats of 3d. land in Tenstaith [Tenston]; and in that of Rousay, 16 March 1503, he is noted as odaller of the 6d. land of Brugh, in Outer Westness, and tacksman of the other 1d. land, called Brek. He was also tacksman with his brother Sir Thomas Cragy of 2d. 1f. land in Quham, Rousay.
On 22 June 1504 he attested the set and rental of Wyre made to James Craigie, who may be his brother, and his wife.
Brugh, or Brough as it has more recently been spelled, was once one of the most important houses in Orkney, due in large part to the importance of its Craigie owners. How this estate came into Craigie hands is unknown, but Hugh Marwick has a theory. He states that the Craigies were "udal" [or heriditary] owners of Brough, and, as such, "their property must have come to them through the female line, for Craigie is of course a Scottish [rather than Orkney] name. The fact that the first James of Cragy -- described in 1422 as "dominus of Hupe" was married to a daughter of Earl Henry St. Clair. makes it not at all improbable that it was through James's marriage that Brugh first came into Craigie hands." The whole area is now in ruins and deserted, and a site of archeological interest.
As far as his children go there is some disagreement as to who they all are. For sure we know that he had James, Marion and Barbara, as they are all mentioned in a deed dated 5 July 1530 as children of Johne Cragie lawman". There are three other Craigie males of this period that another source assigns to this family, but there is no evidence that they actually belong here. They are Gilbert, William and John Cragy. All were present at the Battle of Summerdale in 1529, and were included in the Respite of 1539, of which more will be said later, and John was referred to as "of Banks" in Rousay. Beyond this we know nothing of these three men so they are not included in the lineage here, even though they may belong.
Another relation may be Janet Cragy who married James Halcro. This James Halcro died before 2 February 1555 and was son of Magnus Halcro. Magnus was a contemporary and possibly brother to John Cragy's wife Cristane Halcro. |
Citations
- Ed. J. Storer Clouston., Records of the Earldom of Orkney, 1299-1614 (Edinburgh: University Press, 1914), p.212, 436.
- "Orcadian Families: The Craigie Lineage", Manuscript no. D29-1-3, Orkney Archives, p.2.
William Cragy
M
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| William was the second in a line of Cragy Lawman of Orkney. On 31 January 1480/1, James, youngest son and one of the heirs of the deceased John Cragy, sells to his eldest brother german William Cragy, Lawman of Orkney, his heritage lands in Orkney and Shetland for £20 Scots.
The children listed below are not proven to be children of William. The fact that John, Henry, Thomas and Nicol are brothers is well established, as is the fact that John was Lawman of Orkney, but their parentage is unproven. Their descent from William is likely, however, in that he was the previous Lawman of Orkney and the title would likely have been passed to a son rather than to some more distant relative. One Margaret of Craigie is noted on 27 April 1504 as having Grundwattir in Orphir set to her for £40 yearly. There is no evidence suggesting that she belongs as a member of this family but it is possible.
Clouston notes that the existence of the three "Roithman" brothers Henry, Thomas and Nicol in 1514 point to the probability of three branches of Craigies arising here. Cragys of Banks in Rousay are found in 1539, of Skaill in Rousay in 1556, of Skaill in Holm in 1564, of Vetquoy in Sandwick in 1580, and of Brough in Westray before the end of the sixteenth century.
Another member of this family may be Margaret Cragy, who on 3 July 1492 held the tack of 3 1/2 d. land at Weland, Shapinsay and 9d. land at Grundwater, Orphir, and still had the Grundwater estate on 27 April 1503. |
Children of William Cragy
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John Cragy
M, d. before February 1480
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| Death* | John died before February 1480. He was referred to as deceased in a deed between two of his sons on 31 January 1480/1. |
| John's parentage is unproven but it is possible that he is the son of James of Cragy, Lord of Huip. We know that this James had a son because he and his son (unnamed) are mentioned in the "Complaint of the People of Orkney" in 1424. For the purposes of this genealogy he will be included as the son of James, but there is no proof of this relationship.
"Joanne Cragy, myne/arming...lawrikman" affixed his seal to the celebrated Diploma at Kirkwall on 12 June 1443 or 1446. The "Diploma" was a carefully researched genealogy of the Sinclair / St. Clair family, used to prove the validity of their title to the Earldom of Orkney and their descent from the first Norse earls. The term "myne arming" probably means "my armiger", or "my esquire". He was evidently esquire to the person who made this statement in the Diploma, Bishop Thomas Tulloch. A "lawrikman" or lawrightman was a member of a Baillie Court, which was a "parish or island court with powers delegated by the chief magistrate to deal with petty crime, agricultural management, weights and measures, the maintenance of a watch against threatened invasion, and other administrative matters."
In 1455 he was said to be the "Lawman" of Orkney when he witnessed a disposition of land at Tankerness, St. Andrews. Sir James of Cragy also witnessed this deed, but the identity of this James is unknown. It could be the elder James, or perhaps a brother to John. John was the first of three generations of Cragy Lawman, which means the office was apparently hereditary in this family, an uncommon occurrence for the times. The Lawman was the chief legal officer of Orkney, appointed and paid by the Crown, and often used by the King in an administrative capacity. |
Christie Cragy
M
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| One source places Christie in this family as the middle child and states that he was "evidently a son". The name Christie has been used for both men and women in Orkney. A "Criste" Cragy was a witness to the deed between his (or her?) two brothers in 1481. |
James Cragy
M
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| On 31 January 1480/1, James, youngest son and one of the heirs of the deceased John Cragy, sells to his eldest brother german William Cragy, Lawman of Orkney, his heritage lands in Orkney and Shetland for £20 Scots. |
James Cragie
M
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| On 3 July 1492 James was tacksman of Cetyr in Stromness, a 1d. land containing 9 merks. On 22 June 1504 James and his wife (who is unnamed) held the tack of the island of Wyre. This was witnessed by John Cragie, Lawman. Why he is considered by one source to be a brother to John, or placed second in the birth order, is unknown. |
Henry Cragy
M
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| In June 1514 Henry, along with his brothers Thomas and Nicoll, were noted as being brothers-german (full brothers) to the late John of Craigy. He was a "Roithman" at the time. A Roithman is a term for a Council-man, or one of the 'best landed men' obliged to attend head courts. |
Thomas Cragy
M
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| On 16 March 1503 Sir Thomas Cragy was tacksman with Johne Cragy of 2d., 1f. land in Quham, Rousay.
In June 1514 Thomas, along with his brothers Henry and Nicoll, were noted as being brothers-german (full brothers) to the late John of Craigy. He was a "Roithman" at the time. A Roithman is a term for a Council-man, or one of the 'best landed men' obliged to attend head courts.
In June 1516 he witnessed a decree of the Orkney Lawthing. On June 27, 1532 his land in Kirkwall was mentioned as adjoining other land mentioned in a disposition. |
Nicol Cragy
M
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| On 20 September 1504 Nicol witnessed a gift of lands between a mother and a daughter. On 29 May 1509 he witnessed a testimonial from his brother John Cragy, Lawman.
In June 1514 Nicol, along with his brothers Henry and Nicoll, were noted as being brothers-german (full brothers) to the late John of Craigy. He was a "Roithman" at the time. A Roithman is a term for a Council-man, or one of the 'best landed men' obliged to attend head courts.
There was a Sir Nicol Cragy, vicar of Holm, of the lands of Skaill in Holm in 1565, but this is unlikely to be the same person given the number of years separating them. What relationship exists, if any, between the two Nicols is unknown. Sir Nicol Cragy of of Holm, on 19 January 1564/5, mentions his illegitimate son and heir Gilbert, as well as Gilbert's eldest son Nicoll, second son Edward, then, in order, Hugh, Daniel and Gilbert, all full brothers to Nicoll. Gilbert's spouse was Marion Halcro. On 5 December 1605 Nicoll Craigie, deputy baillie of Holm & Paplay, decided a land dispute. Edward Craigie, son of Gilbert and presumably Nicoll's brother, witnessed the decision. |