Descendants of William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane
Peter Patrick Cromartie and Sarah Sessions Ann Cromartie and John Alexander Anders III
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The Wilmington Star, August 18, 1932 “The Cromartie Line” In spite of the commendable ambitions of the idealists who would place us all on a common footing of high integrity and great ability through uniform education of the masses, it is interesting to note that "blood" still tells to a great extent in the game of life. William Cromartie came to this country nearly two centuries ago from Scotland. He settled in Bladen County, near the spot where a stone was unveiled over his grave this week. He waxed prosperous, accumulated much in land holdings, and became a man of whose name was revered and respected wherever it was known. Among his descendants are numbered some of the leading North Carolinians of this day. Dr. Frank P. Graham, President of the University of North Carolina, is among them. Another is Dr. Robert Wright, President of the East Carolina Teachers College, who was the speaker at the unveiling of the Cromartie monument last Thursday. A third is Dr. J. Gerald Murphy of Wilmington, a former president of the state medical society. The name and lineage of Cromartie still stands for something, and is an ancestry of which the progeny of the Bladen Scotsman are properly proud.
These volumes trace the descendants of William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane. Included in Volume I is the Ancestry of William Cromartie and the Ancestry of Ruhamah Doane that substantiates her Mayflower and Jamestown ancestor, Stephen Hopkins.
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This ambitious work chronicles 250 years of the Cromartie family genealogical history. Included in the index of nearly fifty thousand names are the current generations, and all of those preceding, which trace ancestry to our family patriarch, William Cromartie, who was born in 1731 in Orkney, Scotland, and his second wife, Ruhamah Doane, who was born in 1745.
Arriving in America in 1758, William Cromartie settled and developed a plantation on South River, a tributary of the Cape Fear near Wilmington, North Carolina. On April 2, 1766, William married Ruhamah Doane, a fifth-generation descendant of a Mayflower passenger to Plymouth, Stephen Hopkins. If Cromartie is your last name or that of one of your blood relatives, it is almost certain that you can trace your ancestry to one of the thirteen children of William Cromartie , his first wife, and Ruhamah Doane, who became the founding ancestors of our Cromartie family in America: William Jr., James, Thankful, Elizabeth, Hannah Ruhamah, Alexander, John, Margaret Nancy, Mary, Catherine, Jean, Peter Patrick, and Ann E. Cromartie.
These four volumes hold an account of the descent of each of these first-generation Cromarties in America, including personal anecdotes, photographs, copies of family bibles, wills, and other historical documents. Their pages hold a personal record of our ancestors and where you belong in the Cromartie family tree.
About the Author
Amanda Cook Gilbert, a descendant of Peter Patrick Cromartie, was born in Texas in 1946. She graduated from the University of Texas Health Science Center in 1982. In 1992, she began research on her ancestors who settled in the mid-1800s in Texas. She developed an appreciation for the importance of family, which developed into a lifelong passion, which is intricately layered into the pages of this work on the American branch of the Cromartie family.