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Henrietta Jane (Ettie) CRAIG (1865 - 1902)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Jessie Adeline Adaleen BOLLES (1891 - 1943)
Joseph Thomas Herbert BOLLES (1899 - )
Henrietta Jane (Ettie) CRAIG (1865 - 1902)

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Joseph Woodville BOLLES (1843 - 1930)
Thomas CRAIG (1821 - 1861) Adam CRAIG (1797 - )



Margaret LOW (1800 - )



Jessie (Janet) GRONMEYER (1826 - 1869) Ricahrd GRONMEYER



Janet (GRONMEYER)



Joseph Woodville BOLLES

Joseph Woodville BOLLES
b. abt 1865 at Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
m. 16 Sep 1890 Joseph Woodville BOLLES (1843 - 1930) at Cooktown, Queensland, Australia
d. 29 Mar 1902 at Cooktown, Queensland, Australia aged 37
Near Relatives of Henrietta Jane (Ettie) CRAIG (1865 - 1902)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Grandfather Adam CRAIG abt 1797 Midlothian, Scotland
Grandmother Margaret LOW abt 1800 Scotland
Grandfather Ricahrd GRONMEYER
Grandmother Janet (GRONMEYER)

Father Thomas CRAIG 28 Oct 1821 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland bef 1861 Scotland 40
Mother Jessie (Janet) GRONMEYER abt 1826 Firth, Midlothian, Scotland 1869 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 43

Self Henrietta Jane (Ettie) CRAIG abt 1865 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 29 Mar 1902 Cooktown, Queensland, Australia 37

Husband Joseph Woodville BOLLES abt 14 Jan 1843 Mattapoitte, Massachuetts, USA 08 Apr 1930 Townsville, Queensland, Australia 87

Daughter Jessie Adeline Adaleen BOLLES 28 Jun 1891 Cooktown, Queensland, Australia 10 Aug 1943 Townsville, Queensland, Australia 52
Son Joseph Thomas Herbert BOLLES 06 Jan 1899 Queensland, Australia

Brother John Adam CRAIG abt 1846 Middlesex, England 14 Sep 1886 Fly River, PNG 40
Sister Jessie CRAIG abt 1848 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Sister Margaret CRAIG abt 1851 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Sister Mary Ann CRAIG abt 1853 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Brother Thomas CRAIG abt 1855 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Half Sister Daughter LUCAS 1866

Son in Law Hugh ROBERTS
Daughter in Law Helene Isobel Beeton MACDONALD

Grandson Hugh Bolles ROBERTS 09 May 1922 Queensland, Australia 10 Jun 1985 Queensland, Australia 63
Grandson Living or Recently Deceased
Grandson Herbert W BOLLES 1923 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Uncle Adam CRAIG abt 20 Sep 1817 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland bef 1828 Scotland 11
Aunt Margaret CRAIG bef 04 Aug 1819 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Aunt Maryann Bonar CRAIG 09 Apr 1824 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Uncle David CRAIG abt 1827 Scotland
Uncle Adam CRAIG 04 Mar 1828 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Uncle George Robertson CRAIG 15 Apr 1830 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Aunt Jane CRAIG abt 1834 Scotland

Niece Jessie Evelyn CRAIG 18 Aug 1879 Queensland, Australia 1958 Gosford, New South Wales, Australia 79
Niece Emily Adeline CRAIG 16 Nov 1880 Cooktown, Queensland, Australia Dec 1948 Port Moresby, New Guinea 68
Nephew Thomas Ernest CRAIG 09 Jan 1883 Queensland, Australia 1960 Port Moresby, New Guinea 77
Niece Florence Henrietta CRAIG 28 Feb 1885 Queensland, Australia 19 May 1888 Queensland, Australia 3
Nephew Thomas H CRAIG abt 1886 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Niece Constance M I CRAIG abt 1900 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

Sister in Law Emily EVENNETT 05 Apr 1861 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia 03 Sep 1928 Queensland, Australia 67
Sister in Law Isabella (CRAIG) abt 1863 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Events in Henrietta Jane (Ettie) CRAIG (1865 - 1902)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
Immigration Cooktown, Queensland, Australia per "Merkara" 14
bef 1861 Death of father Thomas CRAIG (aged 40) Scotland
abt 1865 Henrietta Jane (Ettie) CRAIG was born Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 12
1869 4 Death of mother Jessie (Janet) GRONMEYER (aged 43) Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
16 Sep 1890 25 Married Joseph Woodville BOLLES (aged 47) Cooktown, Queensland, Australia 1890/C439
28 Jun 1891 26 Birth of daughter Jessie Adeline Adaleen BOLLES Cooktown, Queensland, Australia 1891/C2646 12
06 Jan 1899 34 Birth of son Joseph Thomas Herbert BOLLES Queensland, Australia 1899/C10626 12
29 Mar 1902 37 Henrietta Jane (Ettie) CRAIG died Cooktown, Queensland, Australia 1902/C4634 12
Personal Notes:
From Karen Thomson:
HENRIETTA JANE CRAIG
Article written about Jane ( as she was known) and her husbane, Joseph Woodville Bolles, and her brother, John Adam Craig..... The article was written by Joseph Bolles' grandson, Herb Bolles in 1993.
"Henrietta Jane Craig of Edinburgh, Bolles second wife, sailed aboard the British Indian steamship “Merkara” to Cooktown to live with her brother Capt. John Adam Craig, who was subsequently murdered by a native crew when pearling in his Cooktown ketch “Emily” in the Louisiade Archipelago, of New Guinea, on September 14, 1886. The following year, on July 26, 1887, her then fiance, William Hanson, was similarly murdered by local natives when pearling in the Cooktown cutter “Cecilia”, in Orangerie Bay of New Guinea. Bolles then married his second wife, Jane Craig in Cooktown in 1890 and they moved to Townsville where Jessie Adaleen Bolles was born in 1892, who later married Hugh Roberts and his son Joseph Thomas Herbert Bolles was born in 1899. Bolles and his family than moved to Townsville where he continued building ships until his retirement in 1915. Bolles was the owner and master of a small steam coaster in the late 1890’s, called the “Dove”. Financially, it was a disaster and today its rusted out boiler lies in mangroves at Port Douglass; used as a bollard for fishing boats
Bolles married his first wife, Margaret Ellen “Ettie” Lang from Devon, on March 8, 1883, but she died of malaria on January 23, 1899 at age 24. They had two children, Arthur Woodville Bolles, born in 1885 and Daisy Lillian Boles, born in 1888
Joseph Woodville Bolles died in Townsville, Queensland on April 8, 1930 at age 87 and was buried in the West End Cemetery in Townsville, Queensland, Australia; Block C, Row 1, Grave 1. He is buried with Henrietta “Ettie” Bowles who died at age 41 in 1902. Exploits of the whalers and Joseph Bolls can be found in the book written by his grandson in 1993, Herb Bolles, entitled "Shipwreck, Massacre and Meyhem”. "... Henrietta was also a witness at the marriage of her sister in law, Emily Craig,nee Evennett, and her 2nd husband Thomas Thomson in 1889 at Cooktown
Source References:
12. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Genes reunited, Title: Genes
- Reference = Karen Davies tree (Birth)
- Reference = Karen Davies tree (Death)
- Reference = Karen Davies tree (Name, Notes)
14. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: Karen Thomson e-mail 13 feb 09, Auth: Karen Thomsom, Date: 13/2/09
- Reference = (Immigration)

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