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  1. John Arnott Taylor Craig: Birth: 29 DEC 1894 in Belfast. Death: 1 JUL 1916 in Somme -battle of

  2. Cicely Anne Walton Craig: Birth: 20 MAY 1896 in Belfast, Antrim, Ireland. Death: 1 OCT 1965 in Surrey, England

  3. Marshall Moore (Paddy) Willoughby Craig: Birth: 11 JUN 1898 in Crawfordsburn, Down, Northern Ireland. Death: 27 MAR 1941 in Gloucester, England


Sources
1. Title:   Marshall Craig7/25/2001
2. Title:   Obituary,Belfast News Letter, Monday,4/27/1903 from Marshall Craig, 7/25/2001

Notes
a. Note:   (Belfast News Letter, Monday, April 27, 1903) --- DEATH OF MR. JAMES CRAIG __________ It is with very sincere regret that we have to chronicle to-day the death of this well-known gentleman. That feeling will be shared by all that knew him and, in a special degree, by those who enjoyed his intimate friendship. To many doubtless the announcement will come as a painfull surprise, for it is only a few weeks since Mr. Craig was going about his accustomed duties in the hearty and energetic manner that was so characteristic of him, and no one looking upon his familiar figure, alert and buoyant with the vigour of manhood, for he was in the prime of life, could have anticipated that the end of his bright and helpful career was so nigh at hand. His death is a heavy blow to all his friends; what it must be to that little family circle of which he was the centre words cannot adequately express, but the sense of loss must be all the greater and intenser because of the suddenness with which the bereavement has come and the added bitterness that death came to him when he was far from his home and the loved ones there. Mr. Craig left Belfast on Good Friday on a short business trip to America, in the interests of Messrs. McCrum, Watson, & Mercer, Ltd., the firm of linen merchants with which he had been so long and so prominently connected, and at the time of his departure he was in his wonted robust health and good spirits. His mission to the United States, to which he was a frequent visitor, and where he was well known, and, therefore, had many good friends---for it was impossible to know him without esteeming and loving so strong and winsome a personality---was being successfully accomplished, and on Thursday last, the 23rd inst., the firm received a cablegram intimating that he intended to sail by the steamer leaving New York on the 5th May. Next day came a message to the effect that he was seriously ill from apoplexy, and on the receipt of this disquieting intelligence hids anxious wife and her mother made arrangements to journey out to him on Saturday's steamer. On Friday night, however, Mr. McDade, one of the partners in the firm, received a later cablegram at his own house, Adelaide Park, informing him that Mr. Craig was sinking, and telling him not to let his relatives sail, as the end was evidently approaching. Saturday morning brought the sad tidings for which Friday's missives had in some measure prepared the griefstricken friends---Mr. Craig had passed peacefully away away at seven o'clock on the evening of the 24th inst. The bereaved relatives may find some consolation in the knowledge of the fact that though in his brief and fatal illness his nearest and dearest ones were divided from him by the intervening ocean, and were restrained by cruel circumstances from those loving and tender ministrations in which the sorrow-burdened heart finds some relief, yet he did not die a stranger in a strange land, for his brother, Mr. Lowry Craig, who is at the head of the York Street Flax Spinning Company's establishment in New York, was doubtless with him in his last hours, and, as already stated, he had many good friends in that distant city, who would see that he had the best available medical skill and careful nursing. The late Mr. Craig was only 43 years of age, but there were few men better known in Belfast, and none more deservedly popular. He was a native of Eglinton, County Londonderry, his father being the late Mr. Marshall Moore Craig, and his mother being a sister of the late Rev. L. E. Berkeley, of Lurgan, afterwards convener of the Sustentation Fund of the Presbyterian Church. In his youth Mr. Craig resided for some time in Lurgan. Thence he came to this city, having accepted a position in the employment of Messrs. James Glass & Co. In 1886, on the death of Mr. William Mercer, Mr. Craig transferred his services to Messrs. McCrum, Watson, & Mercer, Limited, taking charge of one of the principal departments of their business, and here he had remained aver since. Some years ago he was made a partner in the concern, and the promotion was well-merited. It is not to much to say that his commercial ability and enterprise contributed in no small degree to the success of the firm, which, since he became a partner, has removed from its former premises to a handsome and commodious establishment in the same street---Linenhall Street---on the site once occupied by the Ulster Hall annexe. He was deeply interested in everything that tended to the prosperity of the staple industry of Ulster, and as a member of the Linen Merchants' Association---of which he was president for one year---and in other ways he manifested his desire to encourage the endeavours of those who are seeking to ensure the purity of Irish linen. He enjoyed the esteem and goodwill of his confreres in business, and his popularity with the employees was the natural outcome of his genial disposition and his considerate treatment of all those who came in contact with him. He was a man of sympathetic heart and generous impulses, who was never happier than when doing some kindly action---not deeds which would bring him the reward of publicity, for that was contrary to his nature, but acts which done unostentatiously shed rays of sunshine into darkened lives and lightened many a heavy burden. He will be sadly missed not only by those who knew him in business circles and in social life, but in another sense by those who benefited by his true charity, and had no means of recompensing him for his kindness save giving him a place in their memory and their affections. One of his colleagues in the firm speaks of him as being the friend of everybody in the establishment, from the humblest up, and the description is no exaggeration, for the unselfishness and thoughtfulness for others were outstanding traits in his character. He was a loyal and stalwart friend, and many will remember his unobtrusive kindness and attention to the family of the late Rev. Dr. Kane after death had robbed them of their honoured and beloved head. Mr. Craig was keen sportsman, and was especially interested in yachting and shooting. He was an ardent member of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club. Since the inauguration of the club's new house at Bangor he had occupied the position of house treasurer and a large measure of the undoubted success of that establishment was due to his efforts. He was a popular member of the committee of the Union Club, and honorary secretary of the Ulster Gun Club, as well as a member of other sporting organisations. He was a staunch Unionist, though he did not take any very active part in politics, and he was a Presbyterian. He was an enthusiastic Freemason, being W.M. of Lodge 7 (Acacia), and a member of the Royal Arch Chapter and Preceptory in connection with it. Mr. Craig married in 1893 the youngest daughter of the late Mr. John Arnott Taylor, J.P., and he resided at Glen House, Crawfordsburn---a pretty little house which he had just had enlarged and redecorated. With the widow and her three children---a daughter and two sons---sincere sympathy will be felt in their sudden and irreparable loss. As will be seen from the announcement in our obituary column, interment will take place to-day in Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A. __________


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