George and Harry Donald

[Flattybasher9]

Yes, there seems to be different surnames living at the same time, which would suggest that Crommie Cottage and Crombie Cottage are not the same property. Crommie Cairn is refered to as "Crooked cairn", but I actually wonder if it was a land marker for the property of Mr Crombie, whose land Malcolm Gillespie built Crombie Cottage on. Interesting stuff.

Regards

Malky

[enfrance]

RM, while surfing looking for more connections to the cottage I came across an excellent website dedicated to the Hunter family.

I'll try to find it again and post the link.

[Flattybasher9]

Is it this one :-

http://chrisroughan.webs.com/

Regards

Malky

[enfrance]

Yep. the Hunters and Boddies. 

[Flattybasher9]

The saga of Crombie and Crommie cottages is coming to an end. I spoke to the archivist at Aberdeen City council today. She had a search, and pointed me in the direction I wished to go.

Here are the results.

http://maps.nls.uk/os/25inch-2nd-and-later/view/?jp2=82862523

At least part of Crombie and Crommie cottage(s) are the same building, or the exact location of both. Malcolm Gillespie's description of location, although confusing is understandable, when one thinks about it, as one of the roads leads from Dufftown, and the other leads from the Lecht, both being in the highlands, and both being roads that illegal smuggling of spirits would have been carried on. The main cottage building as it stands now, would probably have been built post 1900, looking at the type of walls. And we know that the original one was burned down in 1829, so there may have been several rebuilds of the original cottage.

Regards

Malky.
 

[enfrance]

Malky, thank you so much for all your hard work with this subject, its been fascinating. We visited my stepdaughter this week and introduced her to the family tree - so far - and told her about the additional saga of Horatio and Crombie Cottage. As a newcomer to the subject she was also fascinated about how much its possible to find out about such things, especially with expertise such as yours.

As I love maps, thank you for ths link which puts a face on the area. Without your input we would not have known so much and I will now be able to include this story in the family history.

I hope you got something out of the exercise as well and can appreciate its tremendous value to us.

And also thanks to Red Mystic for the original question about the Cottage which has led to all this.

Yours,

Mike

PS; We are still looking for Harry Donald 

[Flattybasher9]

Mike, if you look at the ANESFHS MI index for Kirkton of Skene, George Watt, Stone/Plot 161, next to the Horiato Donald stone/plot, you will find Anne Watt's parents, father George "senior", mother Ann Philip, and the rest of the family.

Regards

Malky

Harry is still being elusive after 1851.

Ps, there are a lot more on Rootschat with far more expertise than me. Far too many to name individually, buth their individual posts and varied thread responses speak for themselves.