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Forename
Surname
Date of Death
Age
Place Name
Annabella
Boyd
11 December 1940
n/a
George
Craig
18 November 1926
90
Broom
George
Craig
29 November 1929
n/a
John
Craig
22 July 1869
69
Broom
Margaret
Craig
01 January 1954
n/a
Jessie Georgina
Craig
13 September 1952
n/a
Margaret
Wilson
26 November 1915
78
James
Wilson
14 March 1889
17

Relatives: Daughter of George Craig. Stone Condition: Sound, Tilted Material: Granite Height: 2.21 Breadth: 1.02 Depth: 0.45 Inscription Condition: Clear but worn Inscription Technique: Incised Mason: W. Scott, Cathcart Pre 1855 no. N/A ( What's this? )

Monument Inscription

IN MEMORY OF
HIS UNCLE
JOHN CRAIG, OF BROOM,
WHO DIED 22ND JULY 1869,
IN HIS 69TH YEAR.
ALSO HIS SON
JAMES WILSON,
WHO DIED 14TH MARCH 1889,
IN HIS 17TH YEAR.
HIS WIFE
MARGARET WILSON,
WHO DIED 26TH NOVEMBER 1915,
IN HER 79TH YEAR.
ALSO THE SAID
GEORGE CRAIG, OF BROOM,
WHO DIED 18TH NOVEMBER 1926,
IN HIS 90TH YEAR.
HIS SON GEORGE,
WHO DIED 29TH NOVEMBER 1929,
AT SPOKANE, U.S.A.
HIS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER
ANNABELLA BOYD,
DIED 11TH DECEMBER 1940.
HIS DAUGHTERS
JESSIE GEORGINA CRAIG,
DIED 13TH SEPTEMBER 1952
AND MARGARET CRAIG,
DIED 1ST JANUARY 1954


GEORGE CRAIG

Family History

The farm of Broom was part of the policies of Broom House and its adjoining estates owned by the merchant family Pollok.

The Craig family first appear as occupiers of the farm, when by 1850 a farmer named John Craig took up residence. John, who never married, farmed the twenty-seven acre unit with the help of a farm labourer and a house servant.

John continued to operate the farm virtually alone for another twenty years or so until by 1870 his nephew, George Craig, took over responsibility for its operation. George, who had been born in nearby Pollokshaws, was by this time married and the father of five children. As well as farming George, appears to have been a land owner and is specified as such in legal documents.

The farm seemed to depend heavily on milk production and associated products, as two dairymaids required to be employed as well as a farm servant. George had married a woman called Margaret Wilson from Busby in 1861.Within ten years the Craig family expanded to number a total of eleven children, seven girls and four boys.

As related on this monument several of the children are commemorated, including the firstborn son George who died in America. Margaret Craig nee Wilson died in her seventy-eighth year in 1915, but was survived by her spouse by eleven years with George departing this life aged ninety years.