Author: Emra, Lucy
Biography:
EMRA, Lucy, later CROGGAN (1799-1867: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born 19 Sept. 1799 and baptised 17 Oct. 1815 at St. George’s, Bristol (where her father was vicar), the daughter of the Rev. John Emra (1769-1842) and his wife Elizabeth Bastone (1772-1837). John Emra was the son of a plantation- and slave-owner on St. Christopher. They went on to have at least nine children, Lucy being the fifth of eight sisters. She continued to write religious verse after Scenes in the Life and Death of a Missionary (1831) and Heavenly Themes (1832). She also wrote an account of her experiences as a District Visitor in Things New and Old (1839). Her sister Elizabeth Emra (later Holmes) (1804-1843) was also a poet although she is mostly known for her charming Scenes in our Parish (1830), admired by Southey and Bowles. Lucy Emra may have been the sister who wrote Elizabeth’s life in A Sister’s Record (1844) but the whole family was literary and Frances (1808-1888) and Sarah Gray (1800-1867) are also candidates. Lucy married a Wesleyan minister, Walter Oke Croggon, on 7 May 1845. In the 1851 census three unmarried sisters, Sarah, Susannah, and Frances, were living together in Westbury upon Trym, Clifton. After her husband’s death in 1854, Lucy may have joined them as she died there and was buried on 25 Apr. 1867, aged 67. (ancestry.co.uk 6 Aug. 2020; CCEd; Bristol Mercury 29 Apr. 1837, 22 Oct. 1842; GM Dec. 1842, 669; Salisbury and Winchester Journal 17 May 1845) AA
Other Names:
- L. Emra