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Family History Society

Re: CRAIGE FARM
In Response To: CRAIGE FARM ()

In 1906 my cousin Catherine Ann Teare (1871-1937) married Robert Sayle Corlett, MHK (1849-1924) of The Craige, where the couple lived. They had no children. Robert Evans Creer (1838-1915) provides some ancestry for RSC.

His father was Robert Corlett, MHK, Craig and Drunn (Lezayre), b ca. 1824. His father was Robert Corlett, Drunn, ca.1795-ca.1860. His parents are not specified, except that his mother was a Mrs. Corlett, Drunn, nee Sayle. Her father was William Sayle, b ca. 1730, "The Craig", who had three daughters who married three Corletts, and who each received £1,000 [underlined] dowry.

There is earlier shadowy ancestry, back to "[blank] Sayle, Captain of the Parish, who must have been a man of standing in 1649-50 when Cromwell's troops under Col. Duckinfield, not discovering his fort, burnt his stackyard (See Quiggin's guide to the Isle of Man 1842). Captain Sayle was then owner of Ballachurry with its fine woods, rookery and moated fort then surrounded by a farm and water." In her book Captain of the Parish, Constance Radcliffe lists among Andreas Captains, 1644 John Sayle, Craig. Creer tells us that one of the Sayles, somewhere between the CP and the father of the three Mrs. Corletts, exchanged Ballachurry for The Craige.

So some link there with what Frances has told us, but a lot more is needed to flesh out Creer's skeletal account.