LAMB FAMILY

This ambitious work chronicles 250 years of the Cromartie Family genealogical history. Included in the index of nearly 50,000 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Cromarties in America, including personal antidotes, photographs, copies of family Bibles, wills and other historical documents.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.

Thomas Lamb was born 6 December 1815 in Randolph Co., North Carolina. He was the son of Jacob Lamb and Rachel (surname unknown). Thomas married Lydia Hutson 19 February 1833 in New Castle, Henry Co., Indiana. They were the parents of twelve known children. Thomas died 30 December 1882 in Hardin Co., Iowa. Descendants lived primarily in Iowa, North Carolina, Indiana, Michigan, Kansas, Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere.

The genealogy was released on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the wedding of Henry Berry Lowery to Rhoda Strong, December 7, 2015. They had three children of which only their youngest, Nelia Ann "Polly" Lowery, had children. Nearly 1500 direct descendants are included in this book.