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James Crombie

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Death: September 30, 1862 (45)
Cardenden, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom (Rockfall in a coal pit at Caplerdae by stone falling from the roof of the mine )
Immediate Family:

Son of William Crombie and Isabella Crombie
Husband of Agnes Crombie
Father of William Crombie; John Crombie; James Crombie; Mary Hill; Alexander Crombie and 4 others
Brother of Isabella Split; Margaret Crombie; Alexander Crombie; John Crombie; Robert Crombie and 1 other

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About James Crombie

Birth recorded in the old Parochial Registers Kilsyth William Crombie, Banton, and Isabella Brash had a son born 24 September 18127 and baptised in Kilsyth 16 December 1817 , named James.

02 January 1841 James married Nancy Penman

Census schedules show 1841 Address Dundonald Colliery coal merchant

                                       1851 Capledrae Colliery coal miner
                                        1861 Coalmabster employing 19 hands Capledrae Mine opened sometime between 1836 and 1851

In Scotland was the joint-owner of two coal mines in Fifeshire in partnership with a man called Anderson, the Capledrae and Balgregie Mines. . James was killed by a rockfall in the Capledrae mine in 1862 aged 45. The youngest child was 1 year old and the eldest 20. Mary brought the family to New Zealand and they settled initially in Wyndham later to move throughout NZ. James became a stationmaster. Robert settled in Hastings and was a boarding house owner,

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James Crombie's Timeline

1817
September 24, 1817
Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
December 16, 1817
Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, UK
1842
March 28, 1842
Dundonald, Fifeshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1843
August 9, 1843
Auchterderran, Fife, Scotland
1845
April 22, 1845
Cardenden, Fife, UK
1847
October 1, 1847
Auchterderran, Fife, UK
1849
November 21, 1849
Auchterderran, Fife, UK
1852
January 28, 1852
Auchterderran, Cardenden, Fife, UK
1855
April 12, 1855
Capledrae Colliery, Auchterderran, Fife, UK