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Bonars in the 1696 Poll Book: a deeper understanding of Janet’s origins?
I received an interesting message from Jessica McDonald in Canada a couple of weeks ago, detailing an analysis she and her mother Wendy Cromar Mathers had performed on the List of Pollable Persons Within the Shire of Aberdeen 1696, presented in Volume 1 and Volume 2. This important record is available free of charge at…
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Ann Meston (1802-1883): providing further insight into families allied with the Cromars
It’s been over two months since I promised here and here to take a deeper look at Ann Meston, one of the farming wives of the Cromar men along my patrilineal line. I feel a bit guilty, as I had been on quite a roll, working back up the time ladder from Janet Bonar, wife…
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Cromars in the Scottish Postal Directories
“Improvements” changing livelihoods In our exploration of the Jacobite period and its aftermath, we’ve run across many historical descriptions of life in rural Scotland and the nature of farm life. Many sources describe the hardships of subsistence agriculture, which as recounted are hard enough without any other encumbrances. But imagine that life overlaid with an…
