Francis Arthur CRAGO ¹

  General Notes:

Sourced from "Wilton Family Web Site"
http://www.jcwilton.com// (no longer exists)
This gives his name as Arthur Francis Crago

Birth date appears to be one year out

The Hoskins web site gives his name as Francis Arthur Crago
Changed to fit Hoskins web site

extract from the Hoskins web site (http://www.hoskins.id.au/nextgen/index.php)
Francis Arthur CRAGO (1879 - 1951) came from a pioneering family who started in flour-milling in Yass, New South Wales. Petherick CRAGO (1833 - 1907) with his new wife Ann STEPHENS (1838 - 1919) emigrated from Cornwall, England, and arrived in Yass about 1858. He was familiar with flour milling, as he had helped operated a windmill on the farm in Cornwall, and began managing Barber's Flour Mill in Yass. Soon three younger brothers joined him, and by 1869 the business was known as P. T. Crago & Sons, and in 1872 as Crago Bros.. A new mill was built in 1882, and prospered until in the 1920s the surrounding area had become popular for fine wool, and the wheat supply dwindled. Various members of the family established other mills in Brarixton, and in Bathurst. By 1902, Francis built his own mill on a rail siding there, which prospered, and he served a term as Lord Mayor of the city. In 1896, he moved to Sydney and built another mill on a rail siding at Newtown. This was burnt down in 1900, but re-built. Francis died in 1902, and the Newtown mill was then managed by his son Francis Arthur, always called Arthur.

NSW Birth index
22214/1880 CRAGO FRANCIS ARTHUR FRANCIS MARY ANN PATRICKS PLAIN


NSW Historical BDM index (marriages)
ref/yr, surname, first name, wife's surname, wife's first name, district
4084/1907 CRAGO FRANCIS A HOSKINS FLORENCE M BURWOOD

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence. "Wongawilli", Nicholson Street, Burwood, NSW

Francis married Florence Maud HOSKINS, daughter of Charles Henry HOSKINS and Emily Matilda Colley WALLIS, on 13 Apr 1907 in Burwood, New South Wales, Australia. (Florence Maud HOSKINS was born on 27 Sep 1882 in Petersham, New South Wales, Australia, and died on 27 May 1973 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.)