CRAWFORD, James - Extra Data
(member of WILLSON's Party)
Death Notice (Cape Archives) says that he was born in Edinburgh and that he was about 78 when he died, which fits with his obituary in the Eastern Province Herald of 9 December 1873, which states that he died on 5 December 1873, aged 78. This would make his birth about 1795, but his gravestone in St.George's Park Cemetery in Port Elizabeth states that he was born on 26 January 1797, although the stone is now barely legible.
New Register House, Edinburgh
Baptism in Canongate, Edinburgh
London Metropolitan Archives
James CRAWFORD of this parish, bachelor, and Martha WISE of this parish, spinster, were married by banns on 30th September 1818 in St.Mary's, Whitechapel
Both signed
Witnesses: George SHELBY and Sarah TURNER
Mary, daughter of James and Martha CRAWFORD, Penton Place, Book Seller, said to be born 22nd February 1819, was baptised 21st April 1819 in Pentonville Chapel, Parish of St.James, Clerkenwell, Pentonville Road, London.
The obituary of James CRAWFORD says he was brought up in the publishing world of Paternoster Row in London. Paternoster Row, near St.Paul's Cathedral, was the centre of the publishing trade in London, with numerous bookshops in the area, but it was destroyed by bombing in World War II. At the time of his eldest daughter's baptism in 1818, James was working as a bookseller.
New Register House, Edinburgh
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