38. Charles CRERAR
1Statutory Record GRO Scotland, Image on file d1880langholm75.jpg.
Died at Holmhead, Langholm. Informant his son Charles from Mill Hill, Dryfesdale.2Newspaper Announcement.
"Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser - 1 Dec 1880
At Holmhead, here, on the 30th ult, Charles Crerar, in his 81st year."3Newspaper Obituary.
"Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser - 1 Dec 1880
The Late Charles Crerar
We regret to have to record the death of Mr Charles Crerar, Holmhead, who had reached the advanced age of fourscore years. For some time past Mr Crerar has been in indifferent health, but it was only within the past month or two that he was confined to the house. Mr Crerar was a native of Perthshire, and was born in the year 1800. He went into the service of John, fourth Duke of Athole, when quite a boy, and remained with him till the Duke of Buccleuch rented Athole Deer Forest in 1834, since which time he has remained in the employment of the latter. On the Duke relinquishing the tenancy of Athole Forest in 1839 the deceased came to Langholm as head keeper, in which position he has continued faithfully to discharge his duties with the utmost satisfaction to all with whom he came in contact for the last forty-one years. His relations with the tenentry were always of the most cordial character, and in the delicate position which he osccupied between landlord and tenant, this gratifying fact speaks volumes for his character. The high respect in which the deceased was held was shown by the recent special visit of the Duke of Buccleuch to see him. Mr and Mrs Crerar completed the fiftieth year of their married life in Octobber 1877, and in the following March their numerous friends in this district presented them, as a mark of their high regard, with a silver jug and a purse of fifty soveriegns. Mrs Crerar died on 13th May 1879, and she and her husband are survived by a son and three daughters. Mr Crerar belongs to a long-lived family, his father, who was principal gamekeeper to the Duke of Athole, having died in 1840 at the age of 90 years. Father and son seem to have been gifted with many of the same good qualities, as the followign interesting notice of Crerar the elder, taken from the Perthshire Courier of March 5, 1850, may serve to show:- [see John Crerar citations for this]."4Confirmation of Estate.
"1881 CRERAR, Charles. 6 May.- Confirmation of Charles Crerar, Gamekeeper, Holmhead, Parish of Langholm, County of Dumfries, who died 30 November 1880, at Holmhead, testate, granted at Dumfries, to Charles Crerar, Farmer, Millhill, Parish of Dryfesdale, his son, Margaret Crerar or Scott, Holmhead aforesaid, his daughter, and Andrew Johnstone, Writer, Langholm, Executors nominated in Will or Deed, dated 5 June 1879, and recorded with other Writs in Court Books of Commissariot of Dumfries and Galloway, 5 May 1881. Value of Estate, £1,419, 7s. 4½d."
1Newspaper, Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser 13 Mar 1878.
"Golden wedding presentation, a jug and a purse of 50 sovereigns Mr and Mrs Crerar, Holmhead - Dr Carlyle."2Statutory Record GRO Scotland, Image on file d1879langholm40.jpg.
Died at Holmhead, Langholm. Informant her son-in-law John Glendinning from Brae Cottage, Langholm.
53. John CRERAR
1Newspaper Announcement, Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser 3 Dec 1851.
"Death at Holmhead on 15 November 1851 John Crerar, gamekeeper."2Gravestone Transcript, Kirkwynd, Langholm.
"Sacred to the memory of John, eldest son of Charles Crerar and Margaret Donaldson, who died at Holmhead, 18th November, 1851 aged 23.
Also George, their 2nd son, who died 8th June, 1853 aged 23."
54. George CRERAR
1Newspaper Announcement, Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser 6 Jul 1853.
"Death at Holm-Head on 8 June 1853 aged 23 George Crerar, son of Charles Crerar, head gamekeeper to Duke of Buccleuch."2Gravestone Transcript, Kirkwynd, Langholm.
"Sacred to the memory of John, eldest son of Charles Crerar and Margaret Donaldson, who died at Holmhead, 18th November, 1851 aged 23.
Also George, their 2nd son, who died 8th June, 1853 aged 23."
62. Charles CRERAR
1Statutory Record GRO Scotland, 1863_373_36.
1Statutory Record GRO Scotland, 1890_687_10.
On file.
1Statutory Record GRO Scotland, Transcribed.
Informant her husband John Stuart.
1Statutory Record GRO Scotland, 1873_685/02_369.