Peter Roy Crawford – Rural Diary Archive

Coverage Dates: 1910 to 1922

County: Kent

Township: Dover

Lot: 17

Concession: 14

Gender: Male

Year of Birth: 1847

Year of Death: 1931

Ethnicity: Scottish

Religion: Presbyterian

Occupation: Farmer

Relationships:

Father: Dougald Crawford

Mother: Catherine McCallum

Wife: Mabel Greenwood Buck

Sons: Peter “Roy,” Charles, John

Daughter: Maud

Archive: Kent Branch Ontario Ancestors

Posted on Rural Diary Archive: Yes

Age During Diary: 63-70

Coverage: 10 years

Biography

Peter emigrated in 1853 with his parents from Scotland. In 1891, at the age of forty-four, he married nineteen-year-old Mabel Buck. He was a teacher in Wallaceburg and Chatham Township for several years, but when his diary begins, he and Mabel are farming. He has a scraper which he uses to dig drainage ditches for various people. On occasion, he hires Indigenous labourers. Amongst other tasks, he does the books for the Forester Lodge and Calvin Church, and is Deputy Reeve, a mail carrier, and 1911 census enumerator.

A group of twenty-three people of all ages, the "Crawford Clan" in front of their farm house. — The “Crawford Clan” in front of their farm house, c. 1895-1899.
Peter is 4th from the right in the back row. His mother is
seated in the centre.

Teacher Peter Crawford standing with his students in front of a school house. — Peter Crawford and his students at SS#12 Chatham Township in 1895.

Diagram of cows in the barn with a description of each cow. — This diagram of cows in the barn is just an
example of the variety of things found in his diary.

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