Hello and welcome to my Abercromby/Crombie website. I am a retired historian and over the past eighteen months I have been researching and writing this story. I found so much more than I ever expected and there were, for me, some real surprises. Initially, I just thought I would try to find what I could about my father's ancestors, butwhat I found far surpassed my expectations. It is 57 years since my father died and this has reconnected me to him and his family. The most amazing thing for me was to discover how the leaf seems not to have fallen very far from the tree at all. I am in Australia but I had the good fortune to visit Scotland a couple of times, the first was 50 years ago and the last was for my daughter's you wedding in 2008. Enjoy searching through it, maybe you will find what you have been . looking for.
All the historical research was my own work, but I thank all those genealogists out there who have done such marvellous work in finding the family members which enabled me to make the branches of the family tree.
900 Years of Abercromby/Crombies in Scotland and Northern Ireland, 1125-2022.
Loch Doine, The Braes of Balquidder, The Trossachs, Scotland: 21st september, 2008.
Contents;
A 900 year history of the Abercrombie/Crombie family 1125-2000.
Family Trees: The Main Trunk Banff/Aberdeenshire; The Fife Line; The Monymusk Line; Three lines in Northern Ireland 1600-c.1800 (Cromey/Cromie); The Glassaugh Line; The Tullibody Line; The Fetternear Line; The Colony of Massachusetts line from Northern Ireland c.1720; One major line of the Abercrombies who went to Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia et al; and eventually to about 34 of the United States to settle; Canada and Australia.
How we are descendents of the Templar Knights.
Our French Connection.
The Crombie/Abercrombie Crests and their meanings.
Crombie Castle/Kinnairdy House.
The Monymusk Reliquary and our connection.
My critique of the way the Innes family over 500 years muddied the historical records so that we could not find our real roots.
Bios of many past members of the family.
To access the contents of each category above just click on the title of each website below: