James Craggs

James Craggs

Male 1686 - 1721  (34 years)

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  • Name James Craggs 
    Born 09 Apr 1686  Westminster, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Occupation 13 Apr 1717  Appointed Secretary at War Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Cause of Death Small Pox 
    Died 16 Feb 1720/21  [1
    Cause: Small Pox 
    Buried 01 Mar 1720/21  Henry VII's Chapel (N. Aisle), Westminster Abbey, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I00184  Eliots of Port Eliot
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 

    Father James Craggs,   c. 10 Jun 1657, Wolsingham Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Mar 1720/21  (Age ~ 63 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Richards,   b. Abt 1664,   d. 20 Jan 1711/12  (Age 48 years) 
    Family ID F00066  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Wife 1 Hester Santlow,   b. Abt 1690,   d. 15 Jan 1773, Great Russell St., St. George, Bloomsbury Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Children 
     1. Harriot Craggs,   b. Feb 1712/13,   d. 01 Feb 1769  (Age 56 years)
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 
    Family ID F00098  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Wife 2 Unknown 
    Children 
     1. James Smith,   d. 20 Apr 1740, Knightsbridge Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 
    Family ID F00104  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Wife 3 Elizabeth Waters 
    Children 
     1. James Waters,   b. Bef 1719
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 
    Family ID F00471  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 

    • --- "Caledonian Mercury" 20 Dec 1720, page 5:
      We hear that . . . a Marriage being forward between Mr. Secretary Craggs and the Widow of the late Edmund Dunch Esquire, Daughter to Colonel Godfrey.

      [This lady's name is Elizabeth, and the parents are Charles and Arabella (Churchill) Godfrey.]

      --- "Caledonian Mercury" 14 Feb 1721, page 3:
      From the Evening Post
      London, February 9.
      These two or 3 Days Past, Mr. Secretary Craggs has been indisposed, and yesterday Morning about Eleven the small Pox came out upon him.

      --- "Caledonian Mercury" 20 Feb 1721, page 6:
      From Wye's Letter, February 14.
      'Tis fear'd Mr. Secretary Craggs will hardly recover of his Indisposition of the small Pox.

      --- "Caledonian Mercury" 21 Feb 1721, page 4:
      Wye's Letter February 16, verbatim.
      This Afternoon the Right Honourable Mr. Secretary Craggs departed this Life.

      --- "Caledonian Mercury" 20 Dec 1726, page 3:
      The Earl of Oxford has set up, at his own Expence, a Marble Monument in Westminster Abbey, to the Memory of the learned Dr. Grab, who was in the highest Esteem for his great Skill in all Parts of Learning and Antiquity. We shall not omit to mention, that another Monument is going to be set up in the same Abbey to the Memory of the late Mr. Secretary Craggs. We hear nothing concerning Mr. Kinght; but the Year 1720 will be a standing Monument to future Generations.

  • Sources 
    1. "Dictionary of National Biography" by Sir Sidney Lee, 1887, Vol. 12, page 440.