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David Crombie GREIG
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David Crombie GREIG 2
- Born: 16 Feb 1868, East Port, Crail, Fife 2
- Marriage (1): Helen Usher CREASE on 5 Sep 1895 in Scotch National Church Crown Court, Strand, London 1
- Died: 19 Feb 1945, Parktown, Johannesburg, Wiwatersrand, South Africa at age 77 3
 General Notes:
Chairman Johannesburg Stock Exchange for ten years. JHB city councilor. War correspondent, Boer war. 2
Research Notes:
http://www.national.archives.gov.za/
DEPOT TAB
SOURCE MHG
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 0
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 976/45
PART 2
DESCRIPTION
GREIG, DAVID CROMBIE.
STARTING 19450000
ENDING 19450000
REMARKS SURVIVING SPOUSE HELEN USHER GREIG. (BORN CREASE).
Probably an Estate file. Filed in Transvaal. The Greigs (pronounced Greg) family are manufacturing jewellers of note and extremely well off.
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census, 3 Apr 1881, , Crail, Fife, Scotland, Kilminning Farm House. 4
2. Occupation: stockbroker. 2
David married Helen Usher CREASE, daughter of William CREASE and Margaret Balmer GRAHAM, on 5 Sep 1895 in Scotch National Church Crown Court, Strand, London.1 (Helen Usher CREASE was born on 31 May 1867 in Edinburgh and died in 1951 in Johannesburg, South Africa 2.)
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Sources
1
C. M. Usher, A History of the Usher Family in Scotland (Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1956), Tree Table XIII;
The book is also available for download in either MS Word 97/2000 format or in Adobe PDF format.
2
Robin ALLISON, "Thanks".
3
007807254: image 46, David Crombie Greig; digital image, Family Search, South Africa, Transvaal, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1869-1958 (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2520237);
Pietermaritzburg Archives (formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa.
4
1881 Scotland Census, Crail, Fife (417), enumeration district (ED) 6, page 9, schedule no. 39, 3; database on-line, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1119 : accessed 22 May 2002);
MarrAgeSexBirthplace
Jessie CROMBIEW79 FFordoun, Kincardine, Scotland
Rel:Head
Occ:Farmer Of 135 Ac Of Which 120 Are Ara Emp 4 Men 5 Women & 1 Boy
Jessie C. LAWRENCEW44 FCrail, Fife, Scotland
Rel:Dau
Occ:Farmers Dau
David C. GREIG 13 MCrail, Fife, Scotland
Rel:Grdson
Occ:Scholar
Catherine PEATTIEU15 FCrail, Fife, Scotland
Rel:Serv
Occ:Dom Serv;
Original data: Scotland. 1881 Scotland Census. Reels 1-338. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.