Gertrude Elizabeth "Bessie" Mary Coutts (Craig)

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Gertrude Elizabeth Mary Coutts (Craig)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: South Africa
Death: May 08, 1958 (74)
East London, Amatole, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Frederick Craig and Gertrude Blanche Isabel Craig (Bate)
Wife of Edwin "Canu" Coutts
Mother of Peggy Beamish (Coutts); Eileen Craig Coutts; Jack Coutts and Kathleen Mary Craig Coutts
Sister of John Frederick "Jack" Craig; Arthur William "Jock" Craig; George Eric Gwynne Craig and Kathleen Muriel Homan (Craig)

Managed by: Michael Anthony Keppel-Jones
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About Gertrude Elizabeth "Bessie" Mary Coutts (Craig)

Born in South Africa in 1884, the eldest child of John Frederick Craig and his wife Gertrude.

Living at Finnview, Killygordon, Co. Donegal, Ireland, with her grandmother Elizabeth Craig according to the Irish 1901 census taken April 2, 1901; attended Alexandra College, Dublin, 1904.

At age 20, married Canu Coutts January 18th, 1905, at St. John the Evangelist, East London, South Africa.

Two of her children, Eileen and Kathleen, died in childhood of congenital heart defects.

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Gertrude Elizabeth "Bessie" Mary Coutts (Craig)'s Timeline

1883
June 12, 1883
South Africa
1905
December 17, 1905
East London, Amatole, Eastern Cape, South Africa
1908
March 19, 1908
East London, Amatole, Eastern Cape, South Africa
1910
June 24, 1910
East London, Amatole, Eastern Cape, South Africa
1913
March 16, 1913
East London, Amatole, Eastern Cape, South Africa
1958
May 8, 1958
Age 74
East London, Amatole, Eastern Cape, South Africa