---
_id: cni00052930
data:
  actDates:
    - end: 1881
      lang: eng
      start: 1833
      text: 1833-1881
  actNote:
    - intro: acti
      lang: eng
      text: bookseller
    - end: 1856
      intro: acti
      lang: eng
      start: 1850
      text: printer
  extResource:
    - display: http://www.nls.uk/
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Scottish Book Trade Index online (list)
      url: http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/scottish-book-trade-index
  external:
    - auth: NLS-SBTI
      country: UK
      date: 20080207
  foundIn:
    - Campbell Kirkcaldy
    - Schenck
    - Slater 1852
  generalNote:
    - lang: eng
      text: "John Crawford was born in Portmoak in Kinross-shire about 1811, the son of David Crawford who afterwards moved to Edinburgh, where he was employed as a machine-maker. He was apprenticed to George Brodie bookbinder in Kirkcaldy in 1825 or 1826, but finished his apprenticeship in Edinburgh. By 1833, he had opened a bookshop in Auchtermuchty. There he stayed 'fully three years'. In January 1836 he bought the business of George Bernard at 49 High Street Kirkcaldy. In 1852 there firm ran a circulating library. He married four times, 1st Isabella Henderson of Ceres 22 February 1833. She died on 9 January 1838. In November of the same year he married Christian Ferguson. On 4 June 1849 he married Julia Hogarth, who died 10 July 1855; and on 22 February 1859 he married a widow, Mary Nelson [or Brown]. In July 1873 he brought his sons, Walter Hall Crawford and James Hogarth Crawford into the business. The partnerhip lasted only one year, and in February 1877, he went into partnership with William Walker. John Crawford retired from business at the end of November 1881 and died in Sidcup in Kent Aughust 31 1892."
  heading:
    - part:
        - entry: Crawford
        - firstname: John
        - addition: bookseller
        - addition: Kirkcaldy
      usedBy:
        - NLS-SBTI
  place:
    - end: 1836
      id: cnl00026684
      part:
        - name: Kirkcaldy
        - address: Auchtermuchty
      start: 1833
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - end: 1847
      id: cnl00026684
      part:
        - name: Kirkcaldy
        - address: 49 High Street
      start: 1836
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - end: 1849
      id: cnl00026684
      part:
        - name: Kirkcaldy
        - address: "62 High Street, opposite Heron's Wynd"
      start: 1847
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - end: 1856
      id: cnl00026684
      part:
        - name: Kirkcaldy
        - address: "*62 High Street, opposite Heron's Wynd"
      start: 1850
      typeOfPlace: actv
    - id: cnl00026684
      part:
        - name: Kirkcaldy
        - address: 186 High Street
      start: 1855
      typeOfPlace: actv
  related:
    - end: 1872
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: '201 High Street, **Kirkcaldy'
      part:
        - entry: Kirkcaldy Steam Printing and Lithographic Works
      start: 1857
      tmp: sbti:add record link
      typeOfEntity: cni
      typeOfRelationship: ex:hasRelatedEntity
    - note:
        - lang: eng
          text: '*201 High Street, **Kirkcaldy'
      part:
        - entry: John Crawford & Sons
      start: 1873
      tmp: sbti:add record link
      typeOfEntity: cni
      typeOfRelationship: ex:hasRelatedEntity
    - end: 1876
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: '*201 High Street, **Kirkcaldy'
      part:
        - entry: John Crawford
      start: 1874
      tmp: sbti:confirm related
      typeOfEntity: cni
      typeOfRelationship: ex:hasRelatedEntity
    - end: 1881
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: '*201 High Street, **Kirkcaldy'
      part:
        - entry: '[John] Crawford & [William] Walker'
      start: 1877
      tmp: sbti:add record link
      typeOfEntity: cni
      typeOfRelationship: ex:hasRelatedEntity
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2014-03-14T12:00:00Z
  remark:
    - 'SBTI original entry: CRAWFORD, John <bookseller> Kirkcaldy'
    - 'Warning: the SBTI information was converted from unstructured format by automation. The assignment of data elements is to be regarded with caution.'
  status: n