Family Trees
- Family Member
- Sep 6, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 24
The Main Trunk with its Branches in Scotland,Northern Ireland; England; North America; Australia and New Zealand:
This is the Main Trunk began in Banffshire in c.1125 and then went to Perthshire in 1400 before going back to Banffshire in 1600.
First Branch of the Family Tree is called The Fife Branch and it includes Stirlingshire, Perthshire/Angus. It began c.1220
Second Branch of the family Tree is called the Perthshire Branch: It ran out when the last heir went to Northern Ireland in the early c17,
Third Branch was begun in 1314/5 and is called Monymusk Branch, it was at Forglen, Banffshire.
Fifth Branch is in Aberdeenshire and was called Fetternear Branch: It continues with family members from the Main Trunk who live and work in Aberdeenshire, which includes the Woolen Mills
and extra lines:
Sixth Branch was back in Banffshire and was called Glassaugh Branch.
Seventh Branch was called Tullibody and it was in Clackmanackshire, now Sterlingshire.
The family that remained in France: This covers the branch of the family with the title Seigneur de Cromey: The Family Tree in France, : Berbis; Cromey, Morin: 1435-ongoing.
SCOTLAND:
AYRSHIRE; DUMFRIESSHIRE; KINROSS-SHIRE; LOTHIAN; MIDLOTHIAN, EAST LOTHIAN, WEST LOTHIAN; MORAYSHIRE, ELGINSHIRE AND CAITHNESS-SHIRE; RENFREWSHIRE; BERWICKSHIRE
NORTHERN IRELAND:
Third Branch was when James, the youngest member of the main branch went to Antrim and two of his sons began lines in Northern Ireland as well as Thomas, the last of the original line from Fife, who also began a line there after 1620. Line One is from Fife and went to Ballymoney, Antrim: Line Two is James, the older son of James who went to Dungiven, Londonderry: Line Three is Robert the younger son of James and he went to Rathgfriland, Down.
Thomas from Perthshire to Ballymoney, Antrim:
James from Main Trunk to Dungiven, Londonderry:
Robert from Main Trunk to Rathfriland, Down:
There is also a line of Abercrombies Fermanagh.
ENGLAND:
KENT; NORTHUMBERLAND; DURHAM; STAFFORDSHIRE; SUNDERLAND; YORKSHIRE
NORTH AMERICA: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND CANADA
Sub-Branches of the family tree which began in North America:
These cover the Scots Irish/Crombies who settled in the Massachusetts Colony; Abercrombie lines which go to Baltimore, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, across the southern states and eventually most of the United States of America;
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND




What a wonderful resource & labour of love - thank you! I have found my Crombies in Fife Line 2 which correlate with the info on my family tree on Ancestry - up to a point! Then the couple I have mistakenly (probably) allocated as parents are different & do not seem to even appear in any other line. Any suggestions?
I own a volume of essays by Samuel Johnson, published in 1793, given by John Cromie to Marianne Cromie and bearing a nameplate on the front end-piece with John Cromie's name and motto ("suum cuique"). The family trees on this website suggest that this John Cromie was either the father-in-law of Marianne Cromie or her husband, and in either case was among the Cromies in Northern Ireland. As she died in the early 1800s, John Cromie must have owned this book when it was relatively new. I bought this book many years ago. I don't recall where. I'm now reducing my library. On a lark I googled "John Cromie suum cuique" and found my way to this website…
This is fantastic! My family is the Cromey family and quite a few generations were in MN, USA. We have a family tree that relatives researched that goes a ways back. I am very interested in seeing how/if it intersects. I know the earliest has the surname of Cromie, I think brothers who settled there. Family lore is that we originated in Ireland. I’m the first for my branch to now live in New Zealand
Who knows how the Dutch branch is linked to the family? In my familytree there are a Robert and an Alexander Abercrombie. I don't know who the father is. They came in the Netherlands to serve in the Scottisch Brigade. Robbert is probably born in 1607 in Scotland and married Anna van Ufften in Groningen, Netherlands, on the 11th of February in 1632. Robert died in 1675. Alexander, probably his brother, married Beeltjen Berendts on the 31th of October 1626. He died before 1651. In the trees mentioned above I cannot find the connection. Because Robert and Alexander are common names in the family, I am sure that the two in the Netherlands must be belong to this family. Wh…
I have Abbercrommey, Abercromy and Abercrombie. My direct ancestor eventually sailed to New Zealand from Ireland settling into the Canterbury NZ districts.
Your tree shows a similar link but my family went to using the surname Abercrombie.