{"id":1548,"date":"2021-08-10T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T13:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cromarville.wordpress.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2023-05-12T08:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T12:26:03","slug":"a-deeper-cromar-dive-the-path-from-john-to-peter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamcromar.com\/cromarbaile\/2021\/08\/10\/a-deeper-cromar-dive-the-path-from-john-to-peter\/","title":{"rendered":"A deeper Cromar dive: the path from John to Peter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The last few posts have been informed by a thoroughly researched exploration of the Scottish upbringing of my paternal paternal great-grandparents, Theodore James Cromar<\/a> and Christiana Berry Robb<\/a>, their lives together in the New World<\/a>, and the ironic tragedy that awaited with the onset of the Great Depression<\/a>. Were I to treat every generation as exhaustively, we’d need a couple of dozen more lengthy posts to cover the nine generations I believe I’ve uncovered on the Cromar branch. I wouldn’t be afraid of that if I had researched such a level of detail for every generation\u2014and of course, for my grandparents and parents, I have. In fact, I would have started this blog in a more sequential manner, moving from parents down the line in a consistent reversal of time’s arrow, but Theodore and Christiana’s experience provides a better datum for several narrative purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are, for starters, the fulcrum upon which our family’s transformation from Old World to New rests. While this is reason enough, I also see their adventure as a migratory recapitulation, a cyclical echo of the mysterious origin story for the Cromar line that is the motivation for this blog. Recall that the family myth involves another migration tale<\/a>, that of the enigmatic brothers MacDonald who, escaping some manner of persecution, visualized opportunity by inhabiting a new identity in a new part of Scotland that may have felt as foreign to them as New World shores did to my great-grandparents. The experiences that have shaped the Cromar identity are bookended by these brave stories of wanderlust and resettlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having thus established a frame for the tale, let’s unwind the clock from Theodore’s birth and see where, and who, this may lead us to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The current hypothesis<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Modified screen-capture of the private Cromar-Robb Hypothesis<\/strong> tree stored at Ancestry<\/strong>… embarrassingly. I would much prefer to maintain this at Family Search<\/strong>, but it’s irresponsible to create connections there that others will use until cross-referenced data supports them, which as of this writing it does not (I don’t feel quite as ethically challenged at Ancestry, because we know it’s just a hot mess<\/a>). In any event, the tree is not set to public at Ancestry<\/strong>, so starting with the root at Theodore James Cromar, you can see the current state of affairs at Family Search <\/strong><\/a><\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s not possible to write about people singularly, so as I’ve been focusing on Theodore and Christiana, we’ve met a few of the people in this diagram. On the descendant side, we’ve met their children Anne, Marion, Theodore Jr., and Charles. On Theodore’s ancestor side, we’ve come to know to John Cromar and Ann George, his parents. We also know a bit about Ann’s parents, Alexander George and Anne Anderson, who effectively raised Theodore. We’ve been briefly introduced to John’s father George Cromar, and a smattering of other names. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the next few posts, we’re going to ride the crest of the wave, following the Cromar patrilineal progression:<\/p>\n\n\n\n