CROMARTIE GENEALOGY
SAM CROMARTIE
Cromartie Family Reunion 2024
The Cromartie Family Reunion in October of this year will include two events. Saturday October 12 there will be dinner at the Carolina Yacht Club at 401 S Lumina Avenue, Wrightsville Beach, NC in the 1853 room. Fee will be $40. Sunday Oct 13 the reunion meeting will take place at South River Presbyterian Church…
2023 Cromartie Family Reunion
The Cromartie Family Reunion will take place on October 7, 2023 with dinner at Little Pond Catering Restaurant in Wilmington, NC and with the main event being lunch at the South River Presbyterian Church in Bladen County for October 8 followed by a speeches by Bob McLeod, president of the Cape Fear Scottish immigration memorial,…
Orkney Visit
I traveled to the Orkney Islands this week with my family. My great, great, great grandfather William Cromartie was born there on South Ronaldsey in 1731. This group of over seventy islands are separated from the northern edge of Scotland by the twenty-mile wide Pentland Firth. Strong winds and gales have left large portions of…
WILLIAM JAMES CROMARTIE BIBLE
William James Cromartie, son of John Cromartie and grandson of William Cromartie, was born 23 April 1824 and died 5 May 1898 in Bladen County, North Carolina. He married Mary Douglas Sloan, daughter of Dickson Sloan and Katherine Bryan. They had eleven children, including my grandfather, Robert Samuel Cromartie M.D. William James possessed a turpentine…
2022 Cromartie Family Reunion
The annual Cromartie Family Reunion is scheduled for Saturday October 8 and Sunday October 9 this year. There will be dinner at Little Pond Catering Restaurant, 2016 Princess Place Drive, Wilmington, N.C. with a cost of $30 on the first night. The main event will take place on Sunday at South River Presbyterian Church in…
The Cromartie Family
The majority of Cromarties in the United States trace their ancestry to William Cromartie who came to North Carolina from the Orkney Islands of Scotland in 1765 and his wife Ruhamah Doane. She was descended from Stephen Hopkins, who was stranded on Bermuda for nine months after his ship, the Sea Venture, crashed on the…
Henry Howland
Henry Howland, who was born in England in 1565 and died in England in 1635, was an ancestor of Ruhamah Doane, wife of William Cromartie. This chart lists his prominent descendants. It can be found at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City.
The Cromartie Family Virtual Reunion 2021
The Cromartie Family VIRTUAL ZOOM reunion will be held on Sunday, October 10, 2021 EST. It will consist of the reunion, a business meeting, and the program with Dr. Kimberly B Sherman as speaker. From the Backcountry to the Ports: North Carolina’s Scottish Communities as Economic Hubs – how Scots attempted to create economic communities and…
May Hunter Cook 1917-2020
My mother, May Hunter (Cookie) Cromartie of Holly Hill, Florida, passed away in Ormond Beach, Florida on December 29, 2020. She was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina on November 17, 1917, the daughter of May Sedberry Cook and John Henry Cook, the former mayor of Fayetteville. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church of…
2020 Cromartie Reunion
The 2020 Cromartie Reunion has been cancelled due to the Wuhan virus. It will be replaced with a Zoom meeting on Sunday October 11, 2020. I will post the details when they become available.