Linda Gowans has submitted the following:-
Albert Craig was born in 1883, youngest of the eight children of William Craig, a Boilermaker from Newcastle, and his wife Elizabeth Hannah, née Gregson, who were both still in their teens when they married in Sunderland in 1858. For some time, they lived in Monkwearmouth where Albert was born, possibly at 200 Roker Avenue where the family was at the time of the 1881 census. By 1901 Albert had started work as a Shipyard Clerk, living at 165 Roker Avenue with his father William and two sisters.
Meanwhile, his oldest brother, William, a hairdresser, had married and moved south of the Wear: he and his wife Elizabeth are at 83 Sorley Street in 1901, and by 1911 have moved to 73 Ewesley Road, where Albert was living with them. By that time, he was a Clerk at The National Telephone Co. Ltd., in the year before it was taken over by the GPO.
In 1912 Albert married 22-year-old Eva Williamson, daughter of Master Mariner James Williamson and his wife Emma of 3 Chatsworth Street. The couple appear to have lived at 15 Brinkburn Street, and in 1914 had a son Albert (who died in Nottingham in 1985).
In 1916 Albert was initiated into 949 Williamson Lodge of Freemasons at Monkwearmouth.
No records of Albert’s military service have survived, nor is it possible to establish the circumstances of his death. All we know is that he died, like other men associated with St Gabriel’s Church, around the time of the German Spring Offensive of 1918. Albert died in the 1st South African Hospital on 7th May 1918.
Recipient of the Victory Medal and British War Medal.
Albert Craig is remembered at Sunderland on S140.009, S140.010 S140.048 part 7 at Monkwearmouth on M46.30 and possibly at Newcastle on NUT021
Albert Craig is also remembered in the Masonic Roll of Honour and Rev Youngson's Roll of Honour
