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Alexander CRAWFORD (1799 - 1862)
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Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
John CRAWFORD (1819 - )
Archibald CRAWFORD (1820 - )
Flora CRAWFORD (1821 - 1891)
Margaret CRAWFORD (1823 - )
Elizabeth CRAWFORD (1827 - 1880)
Catherine CRAWFORD (1829 - )
Mary CRAWFORD (1832 - )
Jenny CRAWFORD (1838 - )
Edward CRAWFORD (1840 - )
Alexander CRAWFORD (1843 - )
Alexander CRAWFORD (1799 - 1862)

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Mary MCLARRY (1800 - 1884)
Archibald CRAWFORD











Flora BEITH












b. 14 Dec 1799 at Kintyre, Argyleshire, Scotland
m. 25 Aug 1818 Mary MCLARRY (1800 - 1884) at Killean, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
d. 20 Aug 1862 at Murchison, Victoria, Australia aged 62
Near Relatives of Alexander CRAWFORD (1799 - 1862)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Father Archibald CRAWFORD
Mother Flora BEITH

Self Alexander CRAWFORD 14 Dec 1799 Kintyre, Argyleshire, Scotland 20 Aug 1862 Murchison, Victoria, Australia 62

Wife Mary MCLARRY 08 Oct 1800 Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland 12 Oct 1884 Wangrah, New South Wales, Australia 84

Son John CRAWFORD 1819 Scotland
Son Archibald CRAWFORD 1820 Scotland
Daughter Flora CRAWFORD 1821 Campbelltown, Strathclyde, Scotland 10 May 1891 Bobeyan, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales 70
Daughter Margaret CRAWFORD 1823 Scotland
Daughter Elizabeth CRAWFORD 02 Dec 1827 Killean, Argyll and Bute, Scotland 05 Feb 1880 Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 52
Daughter Catherine CRAWFORD 1829 Campbelltown, Strathclyde, Scotland
Daughter Mary CRAWFORD 1832 Scotland
Daughter Jenny CRAWFORD 1838 Scotland
Son Edward CRAWFORD 1840 New South Wales, Australia
Son Alexander CRAWFORD 1843 New South Wales, Australia

Son in Law William BRAYSHAW abt 1810 Whitkirk, West Riding, Yorkshire, England 17 Nov 1888 Bobeyan, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales 78
Son in Law Joseph WOODFIELD 09 Jul 1819 Wiltshire, England 11 Jun 1860 Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 40
Son in Law William PENNISTON abt 1817 1848 Yaouk, New South Wales, Australia 31

Granddaughter Mary BRAYSHAW 1844 Dry Plain, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales 13 Jul 1915 Adaminaby, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 71
Granddaughter Margaret BRAYSHAW 15 Jan 1846 Dry Plain, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales 19 Dec 1928 Adaminaby, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 82
Grandson Thomas BRAYSHAW 27 Jul 1847 Dry Plain, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales 14 May 1919 Adaminaby, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 71
Grandson Edward BRAYSHAW 1848 Dry Plain, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales
Grandson William BRAYSHAW 1850 Bobeyan, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales
Grandson David BRAYSHAW 1852 Bobeyan, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales
Granddaughter Janet BRAYSHAW 1853 Bobeyan, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales
Grandson John Readon BRAYSHAW 1855 Bobeyan, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales
Grandson Alexander BRAYSHAW 1857 Bobeyan, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales
Granddaughter Sarah BRAYSHAW 1859 Bobeyan, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales 1865 6
Granddaughter Flora BRAYSHAW 1860 Bobeyan, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales 17 Dec 1943 Adaminaby, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 83
Grandson James BRAYSHAW 1862 Bobeyan, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales
Grandson Richard BRAYSHAW 1865 Bobeyan, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales
Grandson Archibald BRAYSHAW 1867 Bobeyan, upper Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales
Granddaughter Agnes WOODFIELD 06 Jan 1855 Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 20 Nov 1891 Adaminaby, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 36
Grandson John Crawford WOODFIELD 06 Jul 1856 Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 04 Nov 1858 Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 2
Granddaughter Esther PENNISTON 1847 Yaouk, New South Wales, Australia 08 Aug 1910 Williamsdale, New South Wales, Australia 63
Granddaughter Mary Ann PENNISTON 1849 Yaouk, New South Wales, Australia 16 Aug 1871 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 22

Events in Alexander CRAWFORD (1799 - 1862)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
14 Dec 1799 Alexander CRAWFORD was born Kintyre, Argyleshire, Scotland 6
25 Aug 1818 18 Married Mary MCLARRY (aged 17) Killean, Argyll and Bute, Scotland 6
1819 20 Birth of son John CRAWFORD Scotland 6
1820 21 Birth of son Archibald CRAWFORD Scotland 6
1821 22 Birth of daughter Flora CRAWFORD Campbelltown, Strathclyde, Scotland 6
1823 24 Birth of daughter Margaret CRAWFORD Scotland 6
02 Dec 1827 27 Birth of daughter Elizabeth CRAWFORD Killean, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
1829 30 Birth of daughter Catherine CRAWFORD Campbelltown, Strathclyde, Scotland 6
1832 33 Birth of daughter Mary CRAWFORD Scotland 6
1838 39 Birth of daughter Jenny CRAWFORD Scotland 6
15 Dec 1839 40 Immigration Sydney, New South Wales, Australia per 'Portland' 6
1840 41 Birth of son Edward CRAWFORD New South Wales, Australia 6
1843 44 Birth of son Alexander CRAWFORD New South Wales, Australia 6
20 Aug 1862 62 Alexander CRAWFORD died Murchison, Victoria, Australia 6
Personal Notes:
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Upon arrival at Mt Elrington the Crawfords found their accommodation to be very primitive a slab and bark hut hardly more than 20 x 10 feet in size. This was divided into two sections comprising a partitioned bedroom and a living/kitchen/dining area, all of which had to be shared with the Cochranes. John, being adult, was fully employed with his father on the station where the "boss cocky", the Major, treated them with consideration. However, Archibald tells of floggings on the station, meted out to the convict workers for derelictions of duty. He says he could not equate this cruelty with the kindness shown to him by the Major.

After a year or so at Elrington the Crawfords moved to Jinglemoney Station, which is still shown on maps about 12 km about w.s.west of Braidwood and is also close to or on the banks of the Shoalhaven. In those times it was apparently fairly common in that region for men to be paid their wages in kind and it was at Jinglemoney that Alexander began to acquire his own stock S some sheep and soon a large mob of cattle. He also gained a head of cattle in liew of ,10 deposit he had lodged for the purchase of some land and the deal fell through. Such a growing asset probably led him to move to work at several other stations as the years passed. Archibald was ten when they ended up at Dry Plain Station and it was there, through the encouragement of one of the farm employees, a storekeeper called John McKinley, that he acquired the rudiments of writing and reading. He also mentions in his autobiography that his mother, Mary, always spoke Gaelic at home although outside it she could use English with reasonable skill. He remembers that she had a sweet voice and sang songs in Gaelic to them. Mary also spun wool on a spinning wheel made for her by one of her sons-in-law, William Brayshaw, and she knitted garments for her family.

It was about 1843 that Alexander Crawford obtained a property for himself. In partnership with a Charles McKeachnie (sometimes McKeachanie) they purchased the lease of "Bobyan" [sic] for ,20 but soon discovered they had to pay a further ,10 to the Government for previously unpaid land rent on the property where they ran 100 head of cattle. McKeachnie was later bought out by Archibald's brother John and William Brayshaw, probably in 1845 for Brayshaw is known to have been at Boboyan in that year. John's sister Flora had married William Brayshaw at Dry Plain in 1844. William was to die aged 77 on 19 November 1888 and Flora aged 70 on 10 May 1891. The graves of each lie side by side in Old Adaminaby Cemetery along with the burial places of other Brayshaws, some Crawfords and Lockers.

Another account of unknown source says that the Cowley area around Boyboyan was opened up by a John Gray, a Queanbeyan storekeeper, who employed Charles McKeahnie there from 1839 to 1844 to superintend a small mixed herd of cattle. McKeahnie, an illiterate Scots immigrant, had arrived in Queanbeyan at Christmas, 1848, and took control of Boyoyan when Gray left the district. After a few years the property passed to Alexander Crawford.
Source References:
6. Type: Book, Abbr: Queanbeyan Register, Title: Biographical register of Canberra and Queanbeyan: from the district to the Australian Capital Territory 1820-1930, Auth: Peter Proctor, Publ: The Heraldry & Genealogical Society of Canberra, Date: 2001
- Reference = 62 (Birth)
- Reference = 62 (Name, Notes)
- Reference = 62 (Marriage)
- Reference = 62 (Death)

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