Picked up this Post to the CUMBERLAND-L List - Its a region in England, not a surname List. It seems to be part of a series of Posts, if you're interested further, go to the List Archives to browse the Posts for the past few days worth of submissions by Pam Fallon-Cousins. http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Not much here, only a 1930 mention of a Dr CRERAR and a thank you to him for his efforts. Meg G ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To: scotquester@bartnet.net Subject: PML Search Result matching: crerar From: "Pam Fallon-Cousins" <pfallonc@btinternet.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:51:25 -0700 Source: CUMBERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CUL] Re: WCT 1930 April 12th Page 7 - Acknowledgements C8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Snip Mr William MAYHOLLAMS and son beg to thank all friends and neighbours who sent floral tributes and letters of sympathy in their recent sad bereavement; also Nurses HOLLIDAY & RUTHERFORD; Drs CRERAR & MAXWELL for their untiring attention; also Mr & Mrs George ROE. Snip ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I think that this is the family..... 8. JOHN MACDOUGALL CRERAR (b.1835 Lawers, Kenmore - d.1896) = Catherine CAMPBELL (bc 1843 Scotland) [IGI] John was the youngest son of Peter Crerar and Christian MacDougall, and bore her mother's maiden name as a middle name. The marriage of John and Catherine was recorded 1865 in St.Giles, Edinburgh [685-4-225]. In 1881 the family lived at Castle Hill, Crosscanonby, Cumberland, England [census]. There is a Crerar Close in Maryport, presumably named after John or his famous son Sir James. 1. CHRISTINA CRERAR (b. 11 Oct 1866 Maryport, Cumbria, England) [IGI] 2. Dr. JOHN WILLIAM CRERAR (b.1868 Maryport - d. 7 Jan 1954 Snape, Suffolk) In 1901 John Wm Crerar, MB CM, had an address at 11 High St Maryport, with his brother Charles (1901) [Directory]. His mother Catherine (58) resided with him at Netherhall, Cumberland [census]. Dr. J.W. Crerar (86), who died at Snape, Suffolk, had a distinguished medical career in Edinburgh before going into practice in his native Maryport. He graduated in medicine at Edinburgh University in 1889, and became an F.R.C.S. in 1905. In 1892 he published, "Note on the absence of the subclavius muscle" in J. Anat. Physilo. 26:554. A winner of the Vans Dunlop Scholarship in physiology and surgery he was residential surgeon at the Royal Infirmary and demostrator of anatomy at Edinburgh University. He was a former president of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh. Dr. Crerar retired last year after over 50 years in practice at Maryport. During that period his services to the town, both as a practitioner and in numerous other capacities, made him a uniquely respected figure. He was a Magistrate until debarred by age; and served on the Board of Harbour Commissioners. He also wrote a history of the town [from his obituary, The Scotsman 11 January 1954], and contributed to a genealogy of Joseph and Maria (Lucock) Sealby. On 19 August 1906, John arrived in New York on the Calendonia from Glasgow; in 19 June 1910, while resident in Maryport, John arrived in New York on the Columbia from Glasgow [Ellis Island Records]. 2. CHARLES CRERAR (bc 1870 Maryport) In 1901 Charles Crerar, surgeon, had an address at Monimail Silloth, Cumbria [Directory]. 3. KATE CRERAR (bc 1872 Maryport) = Daniel B. KENNEDY They married 2 September 1897 at Crosscanonby, Cumbria [Wigtown Free Press] 4. PETER A. CRERAR (bc 1874 Maryport) 5. ALFRED CRERAR (bc 1876 Maryport) At 1901 Alfred Crerar, solicitor, resided at 11 High St, Maryport with his brother Dr. John [Directory]. 6. Sir JAMES CRERAR (b.11 December 1877 Maryport - d. 29 August 1960)= Evelyn BRAND (d.1954) [from his obituary]: Sir James Crerar, K.C.S.I. (1929), C.I.E.(1917), who spent the first 20 years of his Indian Civil Service career in the Bombay Presidency and was later Secretary and then Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council in the Home Department, died on Monday, 29 August 1960. He was 82. He was born on December 11, 1877, the son of John Crerar, of Maryport, Cumberland, and educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh. He passed the Indian Civil Service examination of 1900 and spent his probationary year at Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained his M.A. On arrival in Bombay he was posted to Sind for early district experience and in 1906 became Assistant Collector and Manager Encumbered Estates in that sub-province. Having quickly acquired the mastery of Sindhi he held for five years the post of translator to Government. At the end of 1911 Crerar was transferred to Rajkot as Assistant Political Agent in the Kathiawar State. In the middle of 1913 he was selected to be Municipal Commissioner of the Town and Island of Bombay and within a year was officiating as Secretary of the Judicial, Political and Special Department. His courtly bearing and other qualities attracted the attention of the new Governor Lord Willingdon, and soon after the outbreak of war in 1914 he was selected to be the Governor's Private Secretary. Bombay was the real base of the many Indian contingents and it received the greater number of sick and wounded from Mesopotamia, British and Indian, and other Eastern theatres of the conflict. The services of the Willingdons in innumerable ways were of the utmost value to the Allied cause, and they had in Crerar an enthusiastic as well as a wise and patient right-hand man. At the end of 1922, Lord Reading had selected Crerar to officiate as Secretary of the Home Department at Delhi, and he was confirmed in the appointment in the following year. The post was onerous for at the time the Congress movement was nominated of Mr.Gandhi's cult of non-cooperation and civil disobedience. After a brief acting appointment, Crerar was chosen in 1927 to be Home Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council. Unlike his immediate predecessor, the late Sir Alexander Muddiman, who had gone to the United Provinces as Governor, Crerar was temperamentally grave and reserved, yet his handling of the Opposition in the Legislative and his sincerity in the promotion of the welfare of the sub-continent won him general confidence and esteem. For no less than 12 anxious years, up to his retirement in 1934, he had been in the heavily overworked Home Department. He married, in 1916 Eve[lyn], the third daughter of the late Hon. Charles Brand (b. 1 May 1855 d. 25 Aug 1912) and Alice Emma Sturgis Van de Weyer (d. 4 Feb 1926). She died at the end of 1954, leaving a son and daughter. His address was listed as c/o Nat' l and Grindlay's Bank Ltd., 54 Parliament St., SW1. [from The Times, 31 August 1960, 12c; Who's Who]. They had two children: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greenwood" <scotquester@bartnet.net> To: <CRERAR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 7:11 PM Subject: [CRERAR] Mention - a Dr CRERAR in England > Picked up this Post to the CUMBERLAND-L List - Its a region in England, > not a surname List. It seems to be part of a series of Posts, if you're > interested further, go to the List Archives to browse the Posts for the > past few days worth of submissions by Pam Fallon-Cousins. > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > Not much here, only a 1930 mention of a Dr CRERAR and a thank you to him > for his efforts. Meg G > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > To: scotquester@bartnet.net > Subject: PML Search Result matching: crerar > From: "Pam Fallon-Cousins" <pfallonc@btinternet.com> > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:51:25 -0700 > Source: CUMBERLAND-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CUL] Re: WCT 1930 April 12th Page 7 - Acknowledgements > > C8 > ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS > > Snip > Mr William MAYHOLLAMS and son beg to thank all > friends and neighbours who sent floral > tributes and letters of sympathy in their recent > sad bereavement; also Nurses HOLLIDAY & > RUTHERFORD; Drs CRERAR & MAXWELL for their > untiring attention; also Mr & Mrs George ROE. > Snip > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >