CALCRAFT, Joseph & Emma Calcraft family
PHOTO: Joseph Parnham Calcraft (back row, third from left, with moustache) and his parents [Joseph & Anne Elizabeth] and siblings in England, about 1899, several years before he sailed to Canada in 1903.
Joseph and Emma Calcraft migrated from Hull, England to Canada in April 1903.
Joseph was born in 1879, and died at age 77 in 1956. Emma Hammond (1877-1962) married Joseph on 19 June 1900. Both are buried in the Indian Head Cemetery.
They had a daughter, Florence, in England, and four sons in Canada: Harold, Cyril, Charles and Francis.
The Calcrafts initially lived and worked on land formerly part of the Bell Farm, owned by Harry Campkin during the time the Calcraft family lived there.
In 1904 the family moved into town, where Joseph worked for A.M. Fraser, a local architect and contractor. Later he worked as a caretaker for the Indian Head School Board; and then took out a homestead to farm on his own.
SOURCES:
"INDIAN HEAD: History of Indian Head and District", p. 307-308
Marriage Announcement: 28 June 1900: Grantham Journal, p. 6
Calcraft family history: https://www.bottesfordhistory.org.uk/content/category/people/village-families/calcraft-family-at-home-and-abroad
RESEARCH BY:
Bill Pinfold, Sharnbrook, England; and Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask.