>Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 09:03:19 -0700 >From: garygdc@att.net >Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [CRAIG-L] Name Changing >To: CRAIG-L@rootsweb.com >MIME-version: 1.0 >X-From_: garygdc@att.net Sat Aug 5 09:03:18 2000 > >In ref to Craigo name ... We followed our line back to a Craige in 1760 in >Virginia ... Having trouble from there ... the original Scotts name ... >Kraig/Kragg (and similar spellings on the word Krag ... meaning rock or >rock place etc). Remember a lot of Craigs went to Ireland ..... Craigo >would be a natural adjustment via slang etc. However, most of these >spellings are the result of spelling done via sounding of the word/name >... not the following of modern spelling rules. Also, many names got >changed at immigration (whatever the recording clerk wrote down.... so >.... be on the look out for many spellings and follow the record trail >.... most family stories about problems in the family are just that ... >stories (some of course are true but most are fiction) > >There is a McCouns Ferry Road in KY.... on the Mercer/Anderson County side >it is spelled as the family and owner spelled it. On the Woodford County >side the same Ferry and the Road to it is spelled McCowan ..... Some clerk >on the Woodford side spelled it wrong and it has never been able to be >corrected. gdc >> Fellow Listers: >> >> I would like to canvas the list here to see if anyone here >> has heard of a family by the name of Craigo/Crag/Crago . In my >> endeavors to search out info on my Craig roots, I have run into >> these folks many times. Anyway, to make a long posting short, >> here is what I have run across. I have been looking >> imparticularly for a Lewis Craig. His exact age, I do not know. >> I have no birth certificate, no death certificate. I only have >> a copy of the probate papers that lists the items of his estate >> that were sold. And some items were set aside for the widow and >> children. That's how I know that he died here in Preble County, >> Ohio. The County Clerk has no death certificate, only has his >> name in a death book; that's all. However, I do have a copy of >> my great grandfather's death certificate which gives Lewis as >> being his father. And Margaret (Bulger) Craig as being his >> Mother. >> My Great grandfather's Name is Amos Craig. So that would make >> Lewis my great-great grandfather. As best guess, I would say that >> Lewis died sometime in July of 1858. The probate papers were >> filed on the 31st of July 1858. In 1858 his wife Margaret was 30 >> years of age. So I am speculating that Lewis was fairly close to >> being 30 hisself. >> >> Anyway, I ran across several Lewis Craigs and followed them >> only to find they were the wrong Lewis Craig for me. I had found >> a Lewis Craigo, and got to doing some digging on him and some >> folks doing research on the Craigo/Crago line have told me that >> the Craigo's some time way back, had a dispute among some of >> their family members, and some of them dropped the "O" from their >> name to dis-associate themselves from the rest of the family that >> they had a falling out with, and that was where the Craigs came >> from. No one seems to know what the big dispute was over though. >> >> I hope that I have told the story here correctly. Anyway, I >> thought instead of taking their word for it, that I would come >> straight to the horses mouth, so to speak, and see what the folks >> on the Craig List had to say about this thing with the Craigo's. >> >> My intent here is not to start anything, or have the two >> family's quibbling over who was first and who stemmed from what >> family ...... I'd just like to hear the Craig side of the story. >> >> I have only been digging on my Craig roots for about 2 years >> now. I am not an old hand at this. I imagine only 2 years of >> digging might qualify me as a rookie. I don't know everything >> that there is to know, or even close to it. So, could any of you >> folks here on the Craig List give me your feelings on this >> Craig/Craigo/Crago name changing family feud thing ???? Have any >> of you heard this story before ???? Is someone taking me on a >> snipe hunt here ????? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Doug >> >> >> ==== CRAIG Mailing List ==== >> All material sent through Craig-L >> is copyright 2000 by its original author >> permission must be obtained from the original author >> for the reuse of any text, "whole or in part". >> Craig Genealogy Web Page >> http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/9791 >> >> >> ============================== >> Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >> Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >> http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ >> > >