John Mckay CRAIG

1816 -

• Name	John Mckay CRAIG  [1, 2]
  Birth	1816	Perth, Perthshire, Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Military Enlistment	6 Jul 1839	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [1]
  	1892, Royal Sappers and Miners
  1841 Survey Company	1841	Waterford & Preston   [2]
  	Private, 14th Company, Royal Sappers & Miners
  	In Lt. Hamley's Detachment, The Peak of Derby
  Worldwide Index 1841	1841
  	Private/14th Company, Royal Sappers & Miners/In Lt. Hamley's Detachment, The Peak of Derby
  Occupation	Dec 1849	Hong Kong, China   [1]
  	Two years and six months
  Person ID	I6541	Ordnance Survey People
  Last Modified	2 May 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S27] Ancestry.com, UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Registers of Soldiers Who Served in Canada, 1743-1882, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;). Record for John Mc Kay Craig https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=3255&h=309353&indiv=try [S306] Survey Company. FindmyPast provides access to a transcription of the British Army, Worldwide Index for 1841, 1851, 1861, and 1871. Within the records for the Royal Sappers and Miners (1841 and 1851, and Royal Engineers (1861 and 1871) are transcriptions for the Survey Companies; 13, 14 and 16 Companies. These Companies were established specifically for duties in support of the Ordnance Survey. There are 1043 individuals identified in these transcriptions. The transcriptions include the following information; Year, Name, Rank, Army Number, Company, Station, and Comments.