James CROMARTY

Birth:

8 Feb 1848

So. Cara, Grimness, So. Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland

Chr:

19 Mar 1848

Death:

9 Mar 1898

So. Cara, Grimness, So. Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland

Burial:

So. Cara, Grimness, So. Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland

Marriage:

16 Dec 1886

So. Cara, Grimness, So. Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland

Father:

William CROMARTY

Mother:

Margaret GUTCHER

Notes:

                   SOURCE
    BIRTH: S. Rondaldsay P/R (GS 101961) North Parish extracted copy
    MARRIAGE:  corr. by Margaret Wells  to Scotland for S.Ronaldsay & Burray
    DEATH: Scot Civ Reg  and Mary Angus, daughter
    CENSUS: 1861 S.Cara (GS 103889)
    CORR.  Mary Isabella Brown Angus (daughter) of St. Andrews. Fife. Shire              in 1965

   James lived most of his life on the farm of South Cara,  He built the present house (1965) there in about 1892/1894. This house was called Lower House. The old house that James was born in was just a stones throw away from the new one.  James could adapt himself to any form of work.  He and a few other men built the house.
   Mary,James's daughter, says she could remember the house being built.
       James daughter, Mary Isabella Brown Angus, when living at 52A Flat 4 North st St. Andrews, Scotland supplied  this information in 1965.

Thomas Annal Cromarty along with his parents, Alexander Cromarty & Margaret Annal lived in the Upper House of South Cara in 1902

Mary BROWN

Birth:

4 Jul 1857

Haybrake, So. Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland

Death:

24 Oct 1897

So. Cara, Grimness, So. Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland

Father:

James Forbes BROWN

Mother:

Mary Mallet DASS

Notes:

                   SOURCE
   BIRTH: with Mary Isabella Brown Angus, Gibson Hospital, St' Andrews Fife Scot.
   MARRIAGE: See husband
   BURRIAL: N. Parish church yard, S.Ronaldsay, Orkney
   DEATH: F Scot 6 pt 20 and Mary Angus (see above)
   CENSUS 1861 age 3 residing at Upper Hall Brake with mom and dad and sister, Isabella

Children

Marriage

Mary Isabella Brown CROMARTY

Birth:

8 Jul 1887

So. Cara, Grimness, So. Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland

Death:

9 Oct 1966

N.Street, St.Andrews, Fife, Scotland

John Ross ANGUS

Marr:

24 Aug 1913

Faerwood, Dollar, Clackmanan,

Notes:

                   SOURCE
   CORR: with Mary Isabella Brown Angus, Gibson Hospital, St' Andrews Fife             Scot.

NOTE:
   EARLY LIFE: at 9 years old Mary was left an orphan when her father died in
              9 Mar 1898. Her mother had died 24 Oct 1897. She then lived for
              5 years with Margaret Ross (Cromarty) Stewart who was a sister to
              Mary's father.  This was in Partick Glasgow. When Mary was 14                 years she lived with Uncle Jack's family (John Stewart & Petina               Cromarty) and helped look after their children.
              Mary lived with the the Stewarts until Mary married in 1913.
              1n 1909 the Stewarts moved from Edinburgh to a village called
              Dollar, Clackmananshire, so Mary went with them.  The name of the
              house was Faerwood where Mary was married to Captain John Angus.
              Mary was married on a Sunday then went to South Shields till
              her husband had to sail on Monday.
              After giving birth to 3 children she raised them on her own.
              (Notes from Dorothy Paterson)
   RESIDENCE: in 1965 Mary lived at 52A Flat 4 North st.,  St. Andrews, Scot.
              St. Andrews is in Fife and is the town which the famous                       University and Golf Course.  Mary had a job as Housekeeper to a               Doctor until she retired.

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James Cromarty - Mary Brown

James Cromarty was born at So. Cara, Grimness, So. Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland 8 Feb 1848. His parents were William Cromarty and Margaret Gutcher.

He married Mary Brown 16 Dec 1886 at So. Cara, Grimness, So. Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland . Mary Brown was born at Haybrake, So. Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland 4 Jul 1857 daughter of James Forbes Brown and Mary Mallet Dass .

They were the parents of 1 child:
Mary Isabella Brown Cromarty born 8 Jul 1887.

James Cromarty died 9 Mar 1898 at So. Cara, Grimness, So. Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland .

Mary Brown died 24 Oct 1897 at So. Cara, Grimness, So. Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland .