Helen Usher Greig

David Crombie Greig married my grandmother, Helen Usher Crease,( who was the daughter of William Crease and Margaret Balmer Graham, who had married on 31 July 1866), on 5 September 1895, in London at the Scotch National Church Crown Court in the District of the Strand.The occupations given on the marriage certificate were as follows: David Greig, sharebroker, (place of residence Savoy Hotel, Strand). Peter Greig, shipowner. William Crease, Gentleman. Helen Usher Crease, Spinster. As far as I can remember from what I have been told, David Greig set off for South Africa about 1888 at the age of twenty, to seek his fortune and told his fiancée, Helen that he would return to marry her when he had established himself. She waited seven years for him. I think they immediately set off for South Africa, and am fairly sure that they went to Johannesburg, but the next hard information I have is my grandfathers obtaining a seat on the Johannesburg Stock exchange in 1899, but his place of residence is given as Pietermaritzburg, Natal (Info from Robin Allison)