Crawford Genealogy

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G E N E A L O G Y

 

James Crawford (1920-1967)

Children

Margaret Anne	Linda Diane	Donald James	Steven David
b 12/16/1947	b 12/29/1949	b. 1/23/1954	b. 5/6/1957
Married David King (b.9/7/1948), mother of Jeffrey Robert (b. 2/25/1969)	Married Barry Fraser (4/3/1943), mother of Katherine Elizabeth (2/19/1973) & Heather Dianne (7/28/1975)	Married Verla ( Jan.3rd/?), father of Michael James (Nov. 7th/1985) , Neil Steven (Dec.13th/1986) & stepfather to James Kiosyk. Now separated.	Poet, DJ, golfer (living in considerable pain following a car accident).

Parents

James Calderwood Crawford	Stuart Lindsay	Clint Prouse
b 2/2/1920 Caldercruix, Scotland	b 3/3/1919 New Stephenson, Motherwell, Scotland	b 4/4/1921 Pickering, ON, Canada
d 9/22/1967 Toronto, Canada	Lived on Coronation Rd. in New Stephenson. She was given the forename "Stuart" after her aunt.	d 4/8/2001 Toronto, Canada
Served in Canadian Navy during WW II. Died young (47) of a sudden heart attack. Brewers Warehouse dispatcher, Scout Leader (Baloo)	Served in Canadian Army during WW II (cook in officer's mess, Hamilton ON). Remarried Clint 30 years after the death of James.	Served in Canadian Airforce during WW II flying the giant airboats on submarine patrol out of Ireland. An engineer for Ontario Hydro.

Paternal Uncle

George Crawford

d.o.b 1908 d.o.d.January 1, 1960 Married Mary (who later remarried John Stewart)

Died young (51) of heart problems. Father of Joyce Marie (died of Scarlet Fever age 5 years 11 months), Maureen (b. 1938? married James Snow, mother of John & James) and David (b. 1942? married Louisefather of Lisa now living in Vancouver).

Grandparents

Donald Fraser Crawford	Margaret McDowall (Calderwood) Crawford
b.Bonhill, Scotland 4/13/1883 d.Toronto 12/21/ 1940	b. Glasgow, Scotland 4/27/1885 d. Canada Aug. 1961
Married Margaret on 4/20/1906 in Alexandria. Moved family from Scotland to Drummondville Quebec 1930 then Toronto 1932. Calico Printer and textile worker and a member of the Masons (another life cut short by coronary thrombosis).	Died while visiting friends in Hamilton. Buried in Toronto. Member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Buried with her son George in Pine Hills.

Great Grandparents

George Crawford	Jessie (Fraser) Crawford
b 1/28/1852 d. 7/2/1910 at Stranraer .	b. 1857 d. 5/11/1898
An engraver. Born in Cardross, Dunbarton. Lived in Bonhill, Scotland. Married Jessie July 12, 1878 in Bonhill. Member of the Church of Scotland. Also parents of John (1879)Barbara McLauclan (b1881 d 1886 aged 5 yrs 3 mo.) George ( b. 1885 d 6/6/1909 aged 24 yrs.) Helen Knox (died in infancy)another Barbara McLauclan (1887) Jeanie (1889) and Andrew (3/22/1892).	Died of double pneumonia with anaemia and dropsy. A printfield hand. Daughter of Donald Frazer (a laborour in printfield) & Barbara McLachlan.

Margaret Calderwood's Parents

James Calderwood	Isabella (McDougall) Calderwood
b. 1857 d.o.d. early 1900's?	d.o.b 1858 d early 1900's?
A pit fireman later a hairdresser. Son of John Calderwood (a labourer)and Lillias Cuthbertson	Daughter of Neil McDougall (a coal miner) Bella Woods, both deceased at the time of Isabella's marriage to James in Kilmarnock 6/20/ 1876 in the Established Church of Scotland.

Great, Great Grandparents

George Crawford	Jane/Jeanie (Smith) Crawford
b. ca 1825 d November 26, 1891	b1821 d May 8, 1891 (aged 72)
Born in Kilcootry, parish of Donacavey, County Tyrone, Ireland. Moved to Paisley during the "Hungry Forties", in the wake of the Irish Potato Famine. He and Jane had moved to Erskine, Renfrewshire by mid 1848. Then they moved their growing family to Dunbartonshire. Within Dunbartonshire they resided first at Cardross, then Bonhill and finally Alexandria, where George died in 1891 of influenza. They also had Jane (1848), Mary (1850) John (1/28,1855), Agnes (3/4/1857), James (3/1/1860) and Andrew(4/13/1862).	Born in Enniskillen, county Fermanagh, Ireland to John Smith and Jane Smith. Married George in May 1847 in Paisley.

Biography: James Calderwood Crawford

B I O G R A P H Y
JAMES CALDERWOOD CRAWFORD
2/2/1920--9/22/1967







 


James "Jim" Crawford was born in Caldercroix Scotland in 1920 and died at the tragically young age of 47 in Toronto Ontario Canada. He was the youngest of two sons born to Donald Fraser Crawford and Margaret Calderwood. Donald was from Bonhill, where the Crawford family had lived for generations. Bonhill was a small town and parish in Dumbartonshire, on the outskirts of the City of Glasgow. 
Located in the upper reaches of the Vale of Leven, the town is situated on the River Leven across the Bonhill bridge from the town of Alexandria, near beautiful Loch Lomond. The roots of the town are ancient and Sir James Smollett, grandfather of novelist Tobias Smollett, was granted the lands of Bonhill in 1660. Famous as a textile town, well known for its bleaching and dying, it was also the site of the "Bawbee Bridge", and its equally famous halfpenny toll. In addition nine printworks were located within the Vale. Its population in 1880 was 2,940. The population of the town has grown significantly in the past 20 years due to the "Glasgow over spill project" and, sadly, most of the old village has been demolished to make way for a new road. Donald first moved to Caldercroix, where Jim was born and then moved the family from Scotland to Drummondville Quebec in 1930, when Jim was 10 years of age, and finally toToronto in 1932.

In his early 20's, Jim joined the Canadian Navy during WW II serving in Toronto, Dartmouth, Digby and in what was then the separate nation of Newfoundland. His father Donald passed away in 1940 while Jim was in away serving his country.

Here Jim is pictured in his hospital garb on service, likely, in Digby Nova Scotia where he served as an orderly. He also spent two years in Newfoundland. The smiles on everyone's face were likely due to James who was reknowned for his quick wit and engaging personality.

Following the war, Jim joined Brewers Retail in Toronto as a truck driver, working his way up to dispatcher. In the picture above he is checking his orders for the day's deliveries. His skill as "Skip" in the Brewers Retail Curling League led to him getting his picture on the cover of the company's magazine, "The Distributor".

He married Stuart Lindsay and raised his family in the Scarborough area. Involved with his church, Jim was a cub scout leader. Jim loved having a good time, dancing and playing cards. His other personal joys in life involved fishing, curling, bowling, golf and camping.

In the mid 1960's he took his family on a camping trip to the Maritimes to show them where he had been stationed during the war. Only a year later, he died of a massive heart attack, after a weeks vacation devoted to golf. An extremely well liked man, several hundred people attended his funeral. His older brother George had earlier passed away at a similarly young age, of a heart attack, as had their father before them.

Biography: Margaret McDowall Crawford

B I O G R A P H Y
MARGARET MCDOWALL CRAWFORD


4/27/1885--8/22/1961

Born Margaret McDowall Calderwood in Glasgow, Scotland on April 27, 1885. Her parents were James Calderwood a pit fireman in the mines, and Isabella McDougall, who was also the daughter of a coal miner. When Margaret's father tired of the mines, he became a hairdresser.
Margaret married Donald Crawford and had two sons, James "Jim" (named after her own father), and George. She and Donald moved the family from Scotland to Drummondville Quebec 1930 then to Toronto Ontario in 1932. Sadly Donald passed away in 1940 at 57 years of age of coronary thrombosis. He had been a miner and Textile worker and a member of the Masons.


Margaret outlived her husband by over twenty years, passing away suddenly while visiting friends in Hamilton, Ontario in August of 1961. Her oldest son George had already predeceased her, and her depression following his death may have contributed to her own. She was 76 years old.


Margaret was reknowned as a strong and perfectionistic woman who followed a strict set of rules and expectations. However she was a loving grandmother who enjoyed having her grandchildren over to visit for a week at a time, taking them on outings and to the show. Margaret was also involved with the Masons as a member of the Eastern Star.
She is buried with her son George.