John Craigie    Hullion

F.  John Craigie

1826 – 1881

M. Margaret Inkster

m. Sarah Sinclair, Tratland in 1851

Issue

See entry for Sarah Sinclair

Isabella Craigie           Hullion

F.  John Craigie

b. 1838

M. Margaret Inkster

m.   Robert Gibson, Langskaill in 1859

Drummond Craigie      Whome, Westside

F.  NK

Brother of Mitchell Craigie

M.  NK

m.1) Isabel Craigie

Issue

William

b. 3.5.1798

James

b. 28.7.1801

Mary

b. 1792

Died 1876

m.2) Barbary Murray in 1804

Issue

Betty

b. 29.7.1805

Postwoman for many years.

Alexander

b. 25.4.1808

At Kettlewhoam

m.3) Giles Graigie in 1822       Issue ??

Magnus, Charles, and John, probably of the first marriage, are said to have gone to America.

William Craigie   Whoam, later Quoycare.

F. Drummond Craigie

1798 - 1880

M. Isabel Craigie

m. Janet Leonard in 1822.  Janet died in 1877, aged 75.

Issue

James

b. 4.5.1823

Janet

b. 19.10.1829

At Mansmasshill.

Peter

b. 17.11.1727

Thomas

b. 19.11.1831

At Quoycare.

Magnus

b. 13.11.1833

At Quoycare

Mary

b. 22.9.1836

At Quoycare

William

b. 26.8.1838

At Quoycare

Mary married William Foulis of Kirkwall in 1862.  Janet’s parents were Peter Leonard and Isabella Flaws.

Alexander Craigie   Whoam, later Falquoy.

F. Drummond Craigie

b. 1808

M. Barbara Murray

m. Anne Murray, Tofts, Quandal.  Anne died in 1884 aged 71.

Issue

Mary

b. 16.7.1837

At Whoam.

Janet

b. 7.10.1838.

At Whoam

John

b. 27.4.1842

 A tailor.

Margaret

b. 21.1.1847

Died young?

James

b. 11.7.1850

At Loweshouse.

Alexander Gibson

b. 12.2.1853

At Loweshouse.

Magnus

b. 24.4.1856

Ann's parents were Magnus Murray and Janet Robertson, whose other children were Janet b. 3.7.1819, Charles b. 22.12.1821, and Mary who was born on 17.7.1824. Magnus Murray is said to have been the first farmer in Rousay to own a horse-drawn cart.

Mary Craigie      Falquoy

F.  Alexander Craigie

1837 – 1916

M. Ann Murray

m. Paterson Craigie, Claybank, later Veira Lodge, in 1858.

Issue

James

b. 12.2.1860

Died in infancy.

James Paterson

b. 16.2.1862

Robert

b. 26.3.1866

Ann Elizabeth

b. 5.1.1879

Janet Craigie        Falquoy

F.   Alexander Craigie

b. 1847

M. Ann Murray

m. John Inkster, Upper Cogar.  His first marriage.

Issue

Margaret

b. 26.1.1866

Maggie o’ Deithe

James Craigie             Falquoy

F.   Alexander Craigie

1850 – 1929

M.  Ann Murray

m. Janet Sinclair, Stenisgorn

Alexander G. Craigie   Falquoy, later Eyerybist.

F.   Alexander Craigie

b. 1853

M.  Ann Murray

m. Jane Elizabeth Gillespie at Thurso in 1879. 

Issue

Daisy

b. 29.6.1880

Died young.

Annabella

b. 31.5.1882

At Lingro.  Unm.

Edith Mary

b. 13.4.1885

At Lingro.  Unm.

Beatrice Laing

b. 16.5.1887

At Lingro.  Unm.

Emily Seatter

b. 17.2.1891

At Lingro.  Unm.

Ivy Cooper

b. 24.3.1892

Unmarried.

Hilda Keith Spark

b. 16.1.1897

Died young.

Magnus Graigie    Falquoy, later Plivarha’

F.    Alexander Craigie

b. 1856

M.  Ann Murray

m. Ellen Cooper at Holm in 1879.

Issue

Maggie Ann

b. 17.5.1880

At Claybank.

Alexander

b. c1879

Magnus

b. 4.8.1881

At Claybank.

Betsy

b. 20.8.1882

Died in infancy.

Williamina Logie

b. 25.8.1883

Clara

b. 5.5.1885

James

b. 18.7.1886

Went to Canada.

Mary Jessie

b. 22.7.1887

Died in infancy.

David

b. 9.8.1888

John

b. 18.2.1890

Lily

b. 11.5.1891

Alice Gibson

b. 9.10.1893

Helen Mary

b. 5.8.1898

At Plivarha’

Mansie b. 1856  was a renowned fiddler.

Ann Elizabeth Craigie              Veira Logde

F.  Paterson Craigie

1879 - 1958

M.  Mary Craigie

and Hugh Sinclair   See

James Sinclair

b. 19.1.1903

Died 1895. Unmarried.

Margaret Inkster  Upper Cogar

F.  John Inkster

b. 1886

M.  Janet Craigie

m. Hugh Craigie, joiner, Turbitail, later Diethe

James Craigie  Milnhouse, later Claybank.

F.  William Craigie

1789 - 1864

M.  Christian Harrold

m.1) Betty Marwick

Issue

Margaret

b. 1.11.1815

John

b. 30.12.1817

At Geordroine, Sourin.

William

b. 13.5.1820

At Geordroine, Sourin.

James

b. 21.8.1822

At Quoyferras (Faro)

Hugh

b. 22.11.1825

At Guidal.

Mary

b. 24.10.1828

Unmarried.

Paterson

b. 10.1.1832

At Claybank.

m.2) Jean Craigie, Claybank

Issue

Robert

b. 15.10.1835

David

b. 1839

Margaret Craigie      Claybank

F.   James Craigie

b. 1815

M.  Betty Marwick

m. James Grieve, Nethermill, 1845

Issue

Jean

b. 1846

m. Duncan McLean

Margaret

b. 1846

m. William Sabiston

Mary

b. 1849

James

b. 1852 d. 1932

John Craigie    Joiner, Fa’doon

F.   James Craigie

1817 - 1886

M.  Betty Marwick

m. Betsy Sinclair, Swandale in 1861.

William Craigie  1820 – 1900

F.   James Craigie

Cogar, later Old School

M.  Betty Marwick

m. Margaret Inkster, Cogar in 1853.  Margaret lived from 1833 to 1876.

Issue

William M.

b. 8.5.1854.

Elizabeth

b. 13.11.1856

Died young.

John

b. 12.12.1859

James

b. 1863

Mary

b. 13.12.1865

Unmarried

Hugh Grieve

b. 1.8.1869

Hugh

b. 21.12.1875

William A820 was a fisherman. In his younger days he worked for the Hudson Bay Company, and with his savings he set up a shop at Cogar. The shop was later transferred to the Old School, now Ivybank. His son, William M. Craigie, who was a minister, died at sea aged 24.

James Craigie             Farmer, Claybank

F.   James Craigie

1822 - 1905

M.  Betty Marwick

m. Isabella Kirkness, Quoyostray, in 1868

Issue

Isabella

b. 13.7.1869

Mary Kirkness

b. 6.6.1871

Died 1959

James

b. 23.2.1873

Died 1911

John Kirkness

b. 1.8.1876

Later at Corse.

Hugh Craigie               Turbitail

F.   James Craigie

1825 - 1906

M.  Betty Marwick

m. Ann Gibson, Langskaill in 1852.

Paterson Craigie  Claybank, later Veira Lodge

F.   James Craigie

1832 - 1916           Paterson was a blacksmith.

M.  Betty Marwick

m. Mary Craigie, Falquoy

.

Hugh Craigie    Brough, Westside

F.  Hugh Craigie

b. 1778

M.  Janet Marwick

m. Isabel Craigie in 1803.  Isabel was born in 1781.

Issue

Hugh

b. 11.9.1804

Janet

b. 14.5.1807

Janet

b. 20.7.1808

Henry

b. 30.1.1811

Mary

b. 14.4.1813

d. 1858 at Deithe.  Unmarried.

William

b. 7.9.1815

Betty

b. 19.11.1817

At Nether Quendale.

Grace

b. 20.4.1820

At Mid Quendale.

Peter

b. 15.6.1823

At Mid Quendale.

John

b. 11.3.1828

At Mid Quendale.

The parents, along with Mary and John, had moved to Deithe by 1851. Isabel died between 1851 and 1861. John married Margaret McKinlay daur. of William McKinlay  from Curkland in Egilsay in 1856. They were still at Deithe in 1891.

Hugh Craigie  Lived at New Grindly, Brinian.

F.  Hugh Craigie

b. 1804

M.  Isabel Craigie

m. Margaret Harrold (m.s. Marwick) in 1823.  Her second marriage.

Issue

Jean

b. 28.11.1823

Died young.

Betty

b.  20.3.1826

Died on voyage.

Richard Harrold

b. 9.9.1828

This family emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand in 1848 after the death of their elder daughter. The younger daughter died on the voyage. With them went Sinclair and James Harrold, Margaret's sons by her first marriage. Also with them were Sinclair's wife, Barbara Sinclair , and James' wife, Agnes Grieve. .

Richard H. Craigie    Born in Rousay in 1828.

F.  Hugh Craigie

Died in New Zealand in 1917.

M.  Margaret Harrold

m. 1)  Mary Marwick from Woo.

Issue

See entry for  Mary Marwick

m. 2) Isabella Marwick, sister of Mary above.

The story of Richard Craigie and his family is told in the booklet, 'Craigielea' by Ronald J. Stuart, Richard's great grandson.  A copy of that booklet is held in the Orkney Room at Kirkwall Library.

Hugh Gibson                Bigland

F.  Alan Gibson

Died in 1977 aged 76.

M.  Aggie Sinclair

m. Jessie Alexina (Cissie) Craigie, Furse in 1925.  No issue.

Stanley Gibson       Bigland, later Lopness

F.  Alan Gibson

Died in 1988, aged 82.

M.  Aggie Sinclair

m. Alice Craigie, Furse.  d. 1995 aged 90.

Stanley was a skilled stonemason and builder.

James G. Craigie  Old School, Wasbister

F.  William Craigie

 Later renamed  Ivybank.

M.  Margaret Inkster

m. Annabella Chalmers, Stronsay in 1900.

Issue

Annie Flaws

b. 21.2.1901

William Marwick

b. 18.4.1902

Margaret F. I. (Rita)

b.  5.7.1908

Annie Craigie was the teacher at Wasbister for a few years in the early 1920s. She married George Scarth of Kirkwall and went to Canada.  James  was Clerk to the School Board, and Clerk to the Parish Council. He had a shop at Ivybank for many years. Annabella’s parents were James Chalmers and Ann Flaws.

John K. Craigie                        Corse

F.  James Craigie

1876 - 1951

M.  Isabella Kirkness

m. Annabella Scarth in 1899.  Annabella died in 1944 aged 69.     See

Issue

James Forbes

b. 22.11.1899

Died 1970. Unmarried.

Isabella Inskster

b. 8.7.1901

.

Mary Louise

b. 25.2.1903

John

b. 12.1.1905

Maggie

b. 1906

William

Frederick

Maggie married Jim Grieve, Westness.  See.  Maggie Grieve died in 1958 aged 51.  Isabella Craigie  m. William Stevenson.  Issue – Ronald who died in 2004 aged 82.

William M. Craigie    Ivybank

F.  James Craigie

b. 1902.  A joiner.

M.  Annabella Chalmers

m.  Annie Johnston, Breek.  Daughter of Aggie Johnston.  William died in 1964. 

Annie died in 1986 aged 76.

Issue

James

Margaret

Anita

Margaret Forrest Inkster (Rita) Craigie,   Ivybank

F.  James Craigie

b. 1902

M.  Annabella Chalmers

m. John C Marwick, Innister, later Greenigoe, Orphir

Jean Grieve    Clumpy

F.  James Grieve

1846 – 1924

M.  Margaret Craigie

m. Duncan McLean from Ross-shire.  Roadman in Rousay.

Issue

Maggie Ann

John

 Drowned at Stronsay.

Kenneth

 Went to New York.

Duncan's quarry near the top of the Leean road is named after the above Duncan.

James Craigie             Ivybank, later Dounby

F.  William M. Craigie

M.  Annie Johnston

m. Harriet Sinclair in 1965

Issue

Michael

b. 1965

Stewart

b. 1966

Neil

b. 1969

Fiona

b. 1974

Margaret Craigie    Ivybank, later Kirkwall.

F.  William M. Craigie

M.  Annie Johnston

m. Oliver Campbell

Issue

David

m. Lorraine Cumming

Anne

m. Ian Woolley

Ian

m. Jacie Leslie

Joyce

Alan

m. Sylvia Ratter

Anita Craigie    Ivybank, later Sanday.

F.  William M. Craigie

M.  Annie Johnston

m. Andrew John Thomson, Sanday in 1962.

Issue

Andrew

m. Fernyhough

Diane

m. Robert Calder Grieve

Bruce

Maggie Ann McLean               

F.   Duncan McLean

Died in 1973 aged 91.

M.  Jean Grieve

m. John Wylie, fisherman, Grindlesbreck.

Issue

Maggie Ann

John

 Died 1947 aged 34.

Mary

James

Magnus

 Died in 1979 aged 63. Unmarried.

Eva

John hailed from Burray, coming to Rousay as a farm servant at Westness. Died 1946 aged 65.  Eva Wylie died 1960 aged 34.  Unmarried.

Mary Wylie     Grindlesbreck

F.  John Wylie

Died 1985 aged 84.

M.  Maggie Ann McLean

m. Thomas Gibson, Broland.

James Craigie             Cruar

F.   James Craigie

1809 – 1870

M.   Janet Craigie

m. Elizabeth Mainland, Avalsay.

Issue

William

b. 20.3.1841

Martha

b. 30.1.1846

Died 1864.  Unmarried.

Margaret

b. 14.11.1850

Died 1863.

Jane

b. 9.5.1856

Died 1866.

William Craigie    Cruar

F.  James Craigie

1841 - 1906

M.  Elizabeth Mainland

m. Ann Mainland, Banks, Sourin in 1870.  Ann lived from 1839 to 1913.

Issue

James

b. 18.10.1870

William

b. 11.2.1872

William Mainland

b. 23.3.1874

Died 1939.

John Mainland

b. 6.1.1877

David Mainland

b. 9.10.1870

Died 1955.

James Craigie  Fisherman, Cruar

F.   William Craigie

1870 - 1903

M.  Ann Mainland

m. Helen Louttit, Digro in 1892.  Her first marriage.

Issue

James William

b. 7.6.1892

John

b. 29.4.1894

Died aged 5 months.

Helen

b. 11.2.1896

At West Creya.

William

b. 28.7.1898

Died in 1902.

John M. Craigie     Cruar

F.   William Craigie

1877 - 1957

M.  Ann Mainland

m. Alexina Craigie, Falquoy.  No issue.

James W. Craigie   Essaquoy, later Cavit.

F.  James Craigie

1892 - 1962

M.  Helen Louttit

m. Lizzie Craigie, Bu, Wyre..  Lizzie died in 1973 aged 78.

Issue

James

Annie

Died 1991.  Unmarried.

James Jr. was paralyzed since childhood.  Died 1984.  Unmarried.

Helen Craigie             

F.  James Craigie

d. 1980

M.  Helen Louttit

m. John Harcus from Westray.  Gorehouse, later St. Ola.  John died in 1980.

Issue

Helen (Nellie)

Angus

John

James

John Craigie                Grips, Sourin

F.  James Craigie

b. 1826

M.  Janet Grieve

m. Mary Wood Marwick, Midgar in 1863.

Issue

Mary Christian

b. 24.5.1865

John Marwick

b. 30.11.1866

Jessie Ann Muir

b. 22.9.1868

Maggie

b. 25.3.1872

Jemima

b. 17.7.1876

James Marwick

b. 10.7.1878

Maggie married George Hackeston, a policeman. (See). The whole of this family went south. Only John returned to Orkney. Prior to that, he had been coachman to the Coats family in Paisley of A. J. and P. Coats, Threadmills. On leaving their service, he was presented with a bicycle, the first one to come to Rousay.

John M. Craigie                       Breck

F.  John Craigie

1866 - 1962

M.  Mary Wood Marwick

m. Helen Craigie (m.s. Louttit)  Her second marriage.

Issue

John

b. 30.3.1908

John Craigie                Breck, later Kirkwall.

F.  John M. Craigie

1908 - 1994

M.  Helen Louttit

m. Jean Clouston, Upper Knarston in 1933.        See

Issue

Lena

Died 1980.

Cora

Lilian

Pat

Lena Craigie                Breck

F.  John Craigie

M.  Jean Clouston

m. Andrew Munro, Breval.        See