William Cromarty 1800 -1864 & Margaret Gutcher
1821-1886
married
-- (Including Symison, Stewart, Rosie, Manson
also of
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Names of William's brothers and sisters that married
Parents, //\\ Magnus, Catherine, John, William, Jean, James, Robert, Margaret
Names of Margaret Gutcher's
parents or brothers and sisters that married
Parents //\\ Catherine, Margaret, James, Anne, William Mowat
Children of William Cromarty & Margaret Gutcher
Anybody have a picture of James?
Family:
Husband: --- William Cromarty* chr.
15 May 1800 at Lythes, died 29 Jun 1864 South Cara
--------------------------- son of Alexander
Cromarty and Margaret Stewart
Wife: Margaret Gutcher* born 18
Feb 1821 Sandwick died 30 Mar 1886 South Cara -----
--------------------------- daughter of John Gutcher and Isabella Symison
Children:
Margaret Ross Cromarty born 13 May 1846 died 17 Jun 1937 married Robert Stewart 13 Jun 1867
James Cromarty born 8 Feb 1848 died 9 Mar 1898, at South Cara
married Mary Brown 16 Dec 1867
William Cromarty born 4 Nov 1849 died 4 Dec 1910 at Park House,
S. Ronaldsay(didn't marry) ------
Isabella Cromarty born 9 Sep 1851 married Peter Stewart 1 Jun
1876 (Robert & Peter were brothers)
Jane
Cromarty 4 Dec 1853 died 14 Mar 1876 at Edinburgh (didn't
marry)--------
Alexander Cromarty* 17 Feb 1856 married Jane Gray* 14 Jan
1886 in Scalloway
Samuel Ross Cromarty 2 Feb 1859 married Elizabeth Ridland
13 Aug 1888 at Stromness ------
Catherine Cromarty 9 Nov 1860 married Albert Lucien Augade 24 Oct 1900 at Calgary, Alberta
Elizabeth Cromarty 20 Nov 1862 married Angade Newman Johnson in Calgary, Alberta---------
Robert Brodie Cromarty 4 Nov 1864
married Sarah Annie Parker
25 Sep 1890 Toronto, Ontario
South Cara as
it looked in 1971.
When the family of William and
Margaret Cromarty raised their family the only building in this picture would
have been the slanted roofed stone house to the right of center. It would have
been a two story building with a byre attached on the side facing the yard. 1846-1886.
The following is a quote from 'The Islands of Orkney', by Liv
Kjorsvik Schei
"The farm of South Cara on the
east side has belonged to the Cromarty family
since 1450. They also owned North Cara, but sold that property when they
established themselves at South Cara, building a new house there in 1633.
Though quite small, the two-storey house was known for having cut freestone
round the door and lower windows, a feature unique at the time."
In 1971, there was still a stone stairway leading to the second floor with a
stone fireplace in the corner. The walls were about two feet thick. The house
faced the
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1882----------------------------- -----------1903
Left Map showing buildings as they appeared in1882 with the larger building
below and a little to the left of the letter S would be the original South Cara
home at that point of time. Shortly after the 1882 Map was made the Upper House
of South Cara was built just to the left of the original Home and on a higher
piece of ground (hence the name Upper House). See right picture. The original
home became known as the Lower House of South Cara, but only for a short time.
James Cromarty had a new home built directly above the letter S as shown in the
right picture above, and it became know as the Lower House of South Cara. The
old original home of South Cara was probably never used again after James moved
out about 1894.
Lower House as it looked in 1904.
This is the new house into which James and his family moved.
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Names of William's parents or
brothers and sisters that married:
Parents, //\\ Magnus, Catherine, John, William, Jean, James, Robert, Margaret
Names of Margaret Gutcher's
parents or brothers and sisters that married
Parents //\\ Catherine, Margaret, James, Anne, William Mowat