James Craggs (1657-1721) - Find a Grave Memorial

James Craggs

Birth

1657

England

Death

16 Mar 1721 (aged 63–64)

Greater London, England

Burial

St. Luke's Churchyard

Charlton, Royal Borough of Greenwich, Greater London, England Add to Map

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Here lieth the body of James CRAGGS, late of London, Esquire, one of His Majesty's Postmasters General. He was the son of Mr. Anthony Craggs, of Holbeck, in the Parish of Walsingham, County Palatine of Durham, Gentn, and died 16 March, 1722.

He had issue 1 son and 3 daughters, viz. the Right Hon. James Craggs, Esquire, one of the principal Secretaries of State to His present Majesty, who died one month before his said father, and 3 daughters who survived him. Anne, who married Mr. NEWSHAM, of Chadshunt, in the Coy. of Warwick, Esq., and Elizabeth, who married Edward ELIOT, of Port Eliot, in the Coy. Cornwall, Esquire, and Margret, who married Samuel TREFUSIS, of Trefusis, in the said Coy. of Cornwall, Esq., which 3 daughters in duty erected this monument to the pious memory of the best of fathers.