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James Rodger GREIG[1]

Male 1870 - 1941  (70 years)


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  • Name James Rodger GREIG 
    Born 21 May 1870  Montreal Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Died Jan 1941  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Buried 31 Jan 1941  Arlington, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID I187  John Cowan Family Tree
    Last Modified 9 Feb 2019 

    Father William GREIG
              b. 6 Jun 1837, Bridgeton, Glasgow Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 13 Sep 1922, South Bristol, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth McGowan RODGER
              b. 1839, Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1920, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Family ID F13  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah Hall GREY
              b. Abt 1870, Carleton Place, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 24 Jun 1896  Carleton Place, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4] 
    Children 
     1. James William GREIG
              b. 9 Oct 1897, Cardinal, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 28 May 1981, Dunedin, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
     2. Harold Grey GREIG
              b. 15 Jul 1904, Montreal, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 14 Jan 1990, Sarasota, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)
    Last Modified 8 Aug 2020 
    Family ID F65  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Resided in Cardinal, Ontario when he was married. Returned to Montreal in April 1898.

      His Marriage Certificate, abstracted by Janet Gerla April 24, 2018 in an email to John Cowan, says James was a bookkeeper when he was married. Witnesses to marriage in Carleton Place were William Greig (his father) and Alex R Greig (his brother). Both JAmes and Sarah are listed as Presbyterian. Married by Rev A A Scott.

      Janet Gerla reports (April 11 2018 email to John Cowan) that he "lived in Philadelphia in the twenties and thirties and owned an antiques/resale shop there. He had red hair."

      Living in Philadelphia in 1922 (See William Greig Obit in Library/William Greig/Item 7)

      See his grandson's recollections of him during The Depression in Library/William Greig/Item 6

      Died at work (241 S 13th St) at 10AM, while living at 7006 Sellers Ave, Bywood, Upper Darby - an inner suburb of Philadelphia 6.6 miles from his work location (See Library/William Greig/Item 8). Google Street view shows (in 2018) a house that was probably standing in 1941 - detached home in what looks to be a quiet, tree lined area.

      Worked up to the time of his death after 32 years as an antique dealer (Library/William Greig/Item 8). This suggests that he was in Philadelphia as early as 1909, and might have been the reason his younger brother Wickliffe worked and lived in Philadelphia 1911-13.

  • Sources 
    1. [S18] Greig Family History, William Greig - Item 2., 8 Nov 2017.

    2. [S45] James R Greig, Library/William Greig/Item 8. (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S18] Greig Family History, William Greig - Item 2., Page 3 person 20.

    4. [S42] Janet Gerla, April 24, 2018 (Reliability: 3), 24 Apr 2018.
      Email to from Janet Gerla to John Cowan regarding the Marriage Certificate of James Rodger Greig and Sarah Hall Grey