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 see inside any of the contents just click on the title and it will open up for you.

Knights Templar

In c.1125CE King David I of Scotland invited members of the Knights Templar to come to his newly united Scotland to help in setting up a new system similar to the one set up by William of Normandy in England sixty years before.

One of those Knights was Seogneur de Cromey from Burgundy. He came from a family whose surname was MORIN, Cromey was a Title held by the first of that family to come to Scotland and it is from this that our surname was formed.

Geoffroy Morin, French Templar Knight Twelfth Century

Geoffroy Morin was Marshal of the Knights Templar during the mastership of Gerard of Ridefort, the tenth Grand Master of the Knights Templar (1185 – 1189). The date of his departure for the Holy Land and his entry into the Order of the Temple are unknown. From 1187 he was appointed as Commander of the Order in Tyre; he was appointed Marshal of the Order by Gerard of Ridefort in 1188 and was taken prisoner by the Muslims during the Battle of Hattin.

In 1189 he took part in the Siege of Acre where he died alongside Gerard of Ridefort and eighteen other Templars. According to a contemporary poem, Morin died carrying the Baucent. Baucent (bauceant, baussant, etc.) was the name of the war flag (vexillum belli) used by the Knights Templar in the 12th and 13th centuries.

You can find the full story if you click onto the Family Crest. This has other very intresting information about the family, including out connection with the Monymusk reliquary and much more.

900 YEARS OF ABERCROMBY/CROMBIE FAMILY HISTORY

by Carmel Margaret (Crombie) Dahl MMXXII

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Family Member
Sep 6, 2022
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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

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l.crumbie

Oct 13

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?

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Family Member

Oct 24

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I you wish to send me what you have my email is carmelmdahl01@gmail.c

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Greg Morgan

Sep 18

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…

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Laura DeMay

Aug 02

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

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Lia Ent

Jul 27

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…

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Family Member

Jul 30

Replying to

Lia, I will send you an e-mail from carmelmdahl01@gmail.c

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Sarah Abercrombie

Feb 19

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.

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900 Years of Abercromby/Crombie/Cromies in Scotland and Northern Ireland, 1125-2022.

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