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Refining the itinerary for Aberdeenshire
Time doesn’t permit a long and carefully edited post this week. We are busy, one month away from our journey, tweaking and refining our study-abroad day in Aberdeenshire, which I am dubbing the “Aberdeenshire Archaeology Tour.” Many sites in this area close down for touring after October, and this necessarily limits what we can do.…
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“New” information on Kirkton of Aboyne
A Scottish collaborator I have a new collaborator in Scotland: a cousin whose relation to me stems from George Cromar 1735, son of Peter Cromar 1690 and younger brother to Robert 1717. She sent me an image of a map of Kirkton of Aboyne which I can say is supremely helpful for our upcoming visit…
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Jannet, Margaret, and Isobel untangle the post-Jacobite Roberts
In our post Jannet Dun or Janet Dunn or Janet Dune, c. 1720-1770?, we discovered previously unknown sources that provide potential new insights as to the makeup of the Cromar’s family and origins, and I promised a post that would revisit the thorny problem of the many Roberts that we have never conclusively solved. Not…
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Jannet Dun or Janet Dunn or Janet Dune, c. 1720-1770?
Cromars in the Jacobite era By the time Robert Cromar and Jannet Dun had settled down and started raising a typically large rural Scottish family, the Second Jacobite Rising may have been quelled, but the thirst for a Jacobite revolution had not been quenched, and a third revolt was to culminate in “the Forty-Five” with…
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Peter Cromar — or MacDonald of Glencoe?
A divided nation At this moment of turbulence in 2021, we Americans think of ourselves as a divided nation. For us, divisive tendencies date back to debates about slavery that animated fateful compromises in our founding documents two and a quarter centuries ago. But frankly, we are absolute amateurs at this: we’ve got nothing on…
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Kirkton of Aboyne burial ground: a Rosetta Stone for Cromar mysteries
Author’s Note: New research has clarified conclusions detailed in this post, in particular the location of Peter Cromar’s memorial on the map. Please visit the following related posts for the full story: Because this journal is about the real-time process of researching and developing a family history hypothesis, and not the hypothesis itself, I have decided to keep…
