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Migrations III: Peter Cromar’s Milne, Buckner, and Esson descendancy lines in the Northeast
Author’s Note: After a long hiatus, I’m finally able to return to posting! I moved this website to a new domain and server, a time-consuming process and not for the faint of heart. But the results are worth it: no more ads, a new design, better support for multimedia, easier navigation. Did I mention no…
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Thuddie and Teenie in the New World
Boston My Virginian ancestry is a fact over which I harbor little obsession, likely because my formative years were spent in New England. I attended grade school in communities like Chelmsford, Massachusetts and Nashua, New Hampshire, the Granite State. I ate ice cream as New Englanders are fond of doing: standing outside, in winter. Most…
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Theodore James Cromar 1868-1930
The “Granite Men” of Aberdeen Aberdeen is known as the Granite City, and earned that honorific on the strength of a granite industry that built so much more than Aberdeen itself. Cities in the U.K. and internationally depended on the export of granite from Aberdeenshire, along with the stonemasons that were expert at cutting and…
