« Reply #38 on: Thursday 19 November 09 11:40 GMT (UK) »
Hello again Skoosh,
Rena Crum thanks you for desisting the crack about Crumbs

although she wishes her branch had managed to catch a few gold & silver crumbs from the rich branch's table

The name with various spellings (e.g. Cram) is found in ancient settlements by rivers all over Europe. I believe the full surname used to be Crumbiewelle (the name now known as Cromwell).
Hmm, I wonder if the monument belongs to the branch where the male line died out and it was eventully decided that the estate should go to a female cousin so long as her husband took the surname Crum (I believe my grandmother made an unsuccessful claim on behalf of her son John Crum - and wouldn't I like to get my hands on the letter and the scores of other John Crum claims

).
Thanks again, much appreciated.
Rena
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke