Hi group, I have looked on the Gen UKI site for any reference to Braes of Crombie, but can't find anything, and a general search of Braes of Crombie on Yahoo. Can anyone tell me what other town or parish it's near. Many thanks, Catherine At the moment researching the surname McQUEEN.

Hi Catherine, It appears that by posting your query on the Banffshire List, you have been searching for the McQueen family somewhere in in that County. It is possible that the information you have only refers to the Braes - better known as the Braes of Glenlivet in upper Banffshire. There is however a small river within the Braes called the Crombie Water or Crombie Burn. According to my research, there is one family residing in the 1851 Census of Inveravon which at that time included the Q.S. parish of Glenlivet. Tomalienan is a small croft in the Braes. PLACE NAME REL MAR AGE OCCUP BIRTH E D Pg Tomalienan MACQUEEN, Donald head mar 28 shoemaker Lochcarron ROC 9 16 Tomalienan MACQUEEN, Agnes wife mar 36 Fort George l 9 16 HTH George Watt in Ottawa, Canada ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From: "Cci" <cci@arach.net.au> >To: SCT-BANFFSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Banff] Braes of Crombie >Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:10:01 +0800 > >Hi group, >I have looked on the Gen UKI site for any reference to Braes of Crombie, >but can't find anything, and a general search of Braes of Crombie on Yahoo. >Can anyone tell me what other town or parish it's near. >Many thanks, >Catherine

I have looked on the Gen UKI site for any reference to Braes of Crombie, but can't find anything, and a general search of Braes of Crombie on Yahoo. Can anyone tell me what other town or parish it's near. There is a Brae of Crombie close to Crombie Castle which is probably in the parish of Marnoch (I am not at home and haven't got my maps with me here in Edinburgh to check the parish boundaries). If you go to www.streetmap.co.uk and search for Crombie it will produce various ones including Crombie Castle. HTH Anne

Hi again Catherine, we've talked before - regarding Robert GRAY! The Braes of Crombie are in Marnoch parish, Banffshire. My understanding is that Braes of Crombie is not a place as such but is more a locality comprising several crofts and farms, roughly between Crombie Castle (on a minor 'yellow' road following the Crombie Burn north-south) and the Moss of Crombie and Meikle Brown Hill a mile or so to the west. Confusingly, on the Braes of Crombie there is a farm named Brae of Crombie between Mains of Crombie and Moss of Crombie. Brae of Crombie was a 'one-horse croft' (i.e. it only needed one horse for ploughing etc, so was quite small). A close Geddes colateral of mine farmed it from abt 1888 until at least 1935 and I think until the late 1950s/early1960s. The person who currently lives there bought the farm from James GEDDES who died in 1962. In June this year, I visited Brae Of Crombie with a gdson of the original Crombie Geddeses, who had stayed there on many occasions, one time at least was in 1935. Even more confusingly, there is another farm about half a mile to the south also named Brae of Crombie and also on the Braes of Crombie. I don't know anything about this farm. The surname McQUEEN has never turned up in the context of the Geddes Brae of Crombie. Hope this helps. Regards Howard Geddes