Author: Crow, William
Biography:
CROW [CRAW], William (1769-1816: ancestry.co.uk)
W. S. Crockett states that Craw and Crow refer to one individual. He was born on 22 Oct. 1769 (baptised 25 Oct.) at Chirnside, Berwickshire, to Ralph Craw and Janet (Idington) Craw, and became a stonemason. In 1796 he was pressganged into the navy and served on a man-of-war. If, as seems likely, Craw/Crow was the author of The Banks of the Hudson and The Indian, he must have visited America during his naval service. On his return to Scotland, he again worked as a stonemason. He married Janet Jamieson at Ayr on 11 Dec. 1802; they had four or five children. He was also a talented mathematician. He died at Ayr in 1816 but no record has yet been located. (ancestry.co.uk 21 Sept 2018, 25 July 2025; MM) SR