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     Archibald Reid Crombie was born in 1871 in Melbourne, Victoria.² He was the son of Edward Ellice Crombie and Jessie Watson.¹ Archibald Reid Crombie died on 6 August 1885 in London.³

     Squadron Leader Charles Arbuthnot Crombie D.S.O., D.F.C. was born on 16 April 1914.¹ He was the son of David William Alexander Crombie and Phoebe Janet Arbuthnot. Squadron Leader Charles Arbuthnot Crombie D.S.O., D.F.C. married Elizabeth "Betty" Deane Butcher in 1940 in Sydney, New South Wales. On 17 February 1943 as a Pilot Officer he was awarded the DSO for attacking a superior force of four Japanese aircraft and with his RAF observer destroying two of them before they were compelled to abandon their burning machine. This took place in India. Later in the same year he was given an immediate award of the DFC.² Squadron Leader Charles Arbuthnot Crombie D.S.O., D.F.C. died on 26 August 1945 in Williamtown, Newcastle, Australia, at the age of 31 whilst on a routine test flight, ten days after the war was over.³ He was buried in Plot K. Row C. Grave 3. Newcastle (Sandgate) War Cemetery.⁴

     Claudia Crombie was born on 30 November 1916.^1,2 She was the daughter of William Claude David Crombie and Edith Mary Lawrence.¹

     Constance C. "Gipsy" Crombie was born on 11 December 1882 in Madras, India, "Dec 11th at Madras the wife of DAJ Crombie of a daughter."² She was the daughter of David Alexander John Crombie and Mary Forrester Fortune. Constance C. "Gipsy" Crombie appeared in the 1891 census at 23 Stafford Street, Edinburgh.¹

     David Crombie was born on 15 June 1830 in Kilminning, Fife.^1,2 He was the son of David Guillan Crombie and Janet Campbell (Jessie) Webster. David Crombie was christened on 7 July 1830 at Crail, Fife.² He died on 27 February 1841 in Crail, Fife, at the age of 10^1,3 and was buried on 3 March 1841.⁴

     David Crombie was born on 10 January 1871.² He was the son of James Crombie and Isabella Harriett Cameron.¹ David Crombie died on 28 January 1871 living only 18 days.¹

     David Crombie was born on 27 August 1823.¹ He was the son of John Crombie and Euphemia Wallace.¹ David Crombie was christened on 23 September 1823 at Kilconquhar, Fife.¹

     David Alexander Crombie was born on 14 February 1841 in Kilminning, Fife.^1,2 He was the son of David Guillan Crombie and Janet Campbell (Jessie) Webster. David Alexander Crombie was christened on 2 April 1841 at Crail, Fife.² He died on 1 May 1841.¹

     David Alexander John Crombie was born on 11 August 1842 in Crail, Fife.^1,2 He was the son of David Guillan Crombie and Janet Campbell (Jessie) Webster. David Alexander John Crombie was christened on 25 August 1842 at Crail, Fife.² He married Mary Forrester Fortune, daughter of George Fortune and Euphemia Forrester Brown, before 8 February 1877 in The Cathedral, Hong Kong.³ In 1881 he was appointed secretary and treasurer of the Bank of Madras.⁴ David Alexander John Crombie and Mary Forrester Fortune appear in the 1881 census at York, Yorkshire, where he is listed as manager of the L&G Bank.⁵ In 1894 It was reported in the Madras Weekly Mail that a presentation had been made upon his retirement as secretary and treasurer of the Bank of Madras.⁶ In December 1911 he is the informant of his sister's death and his addess is given as at Larkfield, Kent.⁷ David Alexander John Crombie died on 30 March 1919 at 40 Craigmillar Park, Edinburgh, at the age of 76.⁸

     David Alexander John Crombie was born on 30 October 1917 in Brisbane, Queensland.¹ He was the son of David William Alexander Crombie and Phoebe Janet Arbuthnot. David Alexander John Crombie married Barbara Marjorie Knight on 28 February 1946 in St. Paul's, East Brisbane.²

     Colonel David Campbell Crombie CBE was born on 19 November 1877 in Shanghai, China.^1,3 He was the son of David Alexander John Crombie and Mary Forrester Fortune.¹ Colonel David Campbell Crombie CBE was commissioned on 22 January 1898 and was promoted Captain 22 January 1907 serving as a British Officer of the Indian Army in the 23rd Cavalry. He was appointed C.B.E. in the Birthday honours of 1924. He married Therese Pankhurst, daughter of Walter Pankhurst, in September 1914 in Simla, India.⁴ Colonel David Campbell Crombie CBE died in 1952 "Died S.A." South Africa possibly 1 April 1952.⁵

     David Guillan Crombie is also recorded as David Callard Crombie this version of the name has been used in some old family trees. He was born on 20 November 1797 in Newburgh, Fife.^2,3 He was the son of John Crombie and Elizabeth Guillan.¹ David Guillan Crombie was baptised on 3 December 1797. David Guillan Crombie lived at Kilminning Farmhouse, Crail, Fife.² He married Janet Campbell (Jessie) Webster, daughter of Alexander Webster and Janet Campbell, on 7 July 1827 in Anstruther Easter, Fife, The Register of Proclamations and Marriages of the Parish of Anstruther, Fife of 25th June 1827 reads "Mr. David Guillan Crombie and Jessy Webster of the parish of St. Vigeans were contracted to be proclaimed the 1st July next and married 7th same month." The banns appear to have been read in St. Vigeans, Arbroath on 4th July 1827.^4,5 David Guillan Crombie appeared in the 1861 census at Kilminning Farm, Crail, Fife. Where he is described as a farmer of 135 acres employing 5 men and 8 women.⁶ In August 1875 at Kilminning Farm, Crail, won the East Fife Agricultural Society's annual competition for the best managed farm in the district.⁷ He died on 10 December 1879 in Kilminning, Crail, Fife, at the age of 82 of Bright's disease.⁸ He was buried in Crail Churchyard.

     David William Alexander Crombie was born on 28 January 1874 in Cleveland, Brisbane.^2,3 He was the son of James Crombie and Isabella Harriett Cameron.¹ He was a grazier. David William Alexander Crombie married firstly Edith Mary Milman on 18 June 1903. David William Alexander Crombie married secondly Phoebe Janet Arbuthnot, daughter of General Sir Charles Arbuthnot KCB and Caroline Charlotte Clarke, on 29 May 1913 at Newton, Hampshire. In June 1941 David William Alexander Crombie and Phoebe Janet Arbuthnot were living in Warwick, Queensland, Australia. David William Alexander Crombie died on 15 August 1957 in Warwick at the age of 83 peacefully in his sleep.⁴

     Donald Charles Cameron Crombie was born on 19 January 1876 in Enniskillen, Blackall. He was the son of James Crombie and Isabella Harriett Cameron.¹ Donald Charles Cameron Crombie married Mildred Ida Lloyd Hart, daughter of Graham Lloyd Hart and Sarah Ellen Cooper Roberts, on 18 February 1905 in St Andrew's Church, Indooroopilly. Donald Charles Cameron Crombie died on 9 August 1951 in Skye, Toowoomba, at the age of 75.²

     Pilot Officer Donald Charles Cameron Crombie also known as Cam Crombie.¹ He was born on 2 March 1915 in Longreach. He was the son of Donald Charles Cameron Crombie and Mildred Ida Lloyd Hart. Pilot Officer Donald Charles Cameron Crombie died on 31 March 1944 in near Neustadt, Germany, at the age of 29 shot down flying a Lancaster bomber on the Nuremburg Raid the night of 30/31st March. His name is to be found on Panel 258 of the Runnymede Memorial.^2,3

     Donald Crombie J.P. was born on 26 August 1916 in Talleyrand, Longreach. He was the son of James Crombie and Amy Gladys Kirk Flower. Donald Crombie J.P. entered military service in the RAAF during the Second World War in 1940?

     Dorothie George "Tuckie" Crombie was born on 3 March 1888 in Madras, India, "Mar 3 at Madras the wife of DAJ Crombie of a daughter."² She was the daughter of David Alexander John Crombie and Mary Forrester Fortune. Dorothie George "Tuckie" Crombie died in 1977.¹

     Edward Ellice Crombie was born on 5 January 1839 in St. Andrews, Fife.^2,1 He was the son of John Crombie and Euphemia Wallace.² Edward Ellice Crombie was christened on 21 January 1839 at St. Andrews, Fife.¹ He married Jessie Watson, daughter of James Watson, on 4 February 1862 in East St. Kilda, Victoria, Ausralia.^3,4 Edward Ellice Crombie died on 6 July 1892 in London at the age of 53.⁵

     Effie Forrester Crombie M.B.E. was born on 23 January 1879 in Hong Kong.^2,3 She was the daughter of David Alexander John Crombie and Mary Forrester Fortune. Effie Forrester Crombie M.B.E. appeared in the 1891 census at 23 Stafford Street, Edinburgh.⁴ She was living in 1936 at the time of the death of her sister Mary Fortune.⁵

     Elizabeth Crombie is also recorded as Elizabeth Crammy.¹ She was born on 10 August 1783 in Kettle, Fife.² She was the daughter of John Crombie and Elizabeth Guillan.¹ Elizabeth Crombie was baptised on 17 August 1783 at Kettle, Fife.¹

     Elizabeth Crombie was born on 9 March 1832 in St. Andrews, Fife.^1,2 She was the daughter of John Crombie and Euphemia Wallace.¹ Elizabeth Crombie was christened on 25 March 1832 at St. Andrews, Fife.² She was living at 12 Ashton Terrace, Govan, Lanarkshire, in 1881 with her brother and family. She was unmarried.³

     Elizabeth Crombie was born circa 1873 in Dalston, London.¹ She was the daughter of Edward Ellice Crombie and Jessie Watson.¹ Elizabeth Crombie married Philipp Jacob Vogel in 1895 in St. Pancras, London.^2,3

     Elizabeth Campbell Crombie was born on 13 September 1828.¹ She was the daughter of David Guillan Crombie and Janet Campbell (Jessie) Webster. Elizabeth Campbell Crombie was christened on 2 October 1828 at Anstruther Easter, Fife.² She married Peter Greig on 10 April 1856 (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~usher/ushersct/3965.htm says the marriage took place on 10 April 1856 in Geelong, Australia.)^1,3 Elizabeth Campbell Crombie and Peter Greig were appeared in the Census of 1881 together with three of their children at Dumbarton Road, Clydeview, Lanarkshire.³ Elizabeth Campbell Crombie died on 16 November 1887 at 11 Clydeview, Partick, at the age of 59 of apoplexy.⁴

     Elizabeth Guillen Crombie was born on 8 December 1821.¹ She was the daughter of John Crombie and Euphemia Wallace.¹ Elizabeth Guillen Crombie was christened on 26 December 1821 at Kilconquhar, Fife.¹ She died before 1832.²

     Euphemia Crombie was born on 25 October 1819 in Fife.¹ She was the daughter of John Crombie and Euphemia Wallace.¹ Euphemia Crombie was christened on 9 November 1819 at Kilconquhar, Fife.¹

     Frances Annie Crombie was born circa 1875 in Glasgow.¹ She was the daughter of William Reid Crombie and Isabella Macdonald.¹

     Gladys Elizabeth Crombie was born on 14 August 1920 in Longreach.¹ She was the daughter of James Crombie and Amy Gladys Kirk Flower. Gladys Elizabeth Crombie is also recorded as Beth. In August 1961 She was appointed as the first female Probation Officer, by the Justice Department in Queensland.

     Helen Isabella Maule Crombie was born on 15 July 1904. She was the daughter of David William Alexander Crombie and Edith Mary Milman. Helen Isabella Maule Crombie married Jonathan Fleming Robert Boadle on 15 July 1937 in St. Peter's Church of England, Southport, Queensland.¹ Helen Isabella Maule Crombie died between 17 October 1950 and 17 October 1959 (probably 1952.)

     Ian Alistair Crombie was born on 16 October 1943.¹ He was the son of Professor Alistair Cameron Crombie PhD. and Nancy Hay. Ian Alistair Crombie died circa December 1943.¹

     James Crombie was born on 8 June 1834 in Kilminning Farm, Crail, Fife.¹ He was the son of David Guillan Crombie and Janet Campbell (Jessie) Webster. James Crombie was christened on 25 June 1834 at Crail, Fife.¹ He was educated at Madras College, St. Andrews. He emigrated on 22 September 1852 from Greenock; on the ship Typhoon 965 tons. Master Alex. D. Smith. The ships masts were damaged in a gale off Portugal, they arrived Melbourne on 4th March 1853. Upon reaching Melbourne he prospected with fair success at Bakery Hill, Ballarat. Joined by his brother William, Crombie commenced mixed farming at Mount Prospect, Creswick, and developed a close relationship with the family of John Cameron. Crombie was an active member of the Creswick District Road Board, the Bullarook Farmers' Common and the Smeaton, Spring Hill and Bullarook Agricultural Association. He embarked on a Pastoral trek to Queensland with the Camerons in 1863.

The partnership stocked Barcaldine Downs in 1864-78 and later leased Kensington Downs and Greenhills, near Mutaburra in the Mitchell district. Crombie visited Britain in 1877-79 and, in 1881, the brothers took control of Greenhills. James moved to Brisbane and also purchased a large Fassifern farm. He became a director of the Royal Bank of Queensland and the Queensland Meat Export and Agency Co., and joined the Queensland Meat and Dairy Board. Representing Mitchell in 1888-93, and Warrego in 1893-98, Crombie was one of the last of the pioneer Central Queensland squatters to enter parliament. Publicly taciturn and blunt, he was uninterested in political advancement although privately warm hearted and genial. He raised his widower brother's four children.

Crombie was foundation treasurer of the United Pastoralists' Association of Queensland (1891-96), and delegate to all conventions of the Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia during the shearing strikes of 1891 and 1894. In 1889 he believed that "the (trade) union had been a blessing to the district", but by 1891 he eulogized the role of the defence forces in the great confrontation. Similarly, in 1894, he was one of the more intransigent of the employers, a position he admitted had been forced upon him by falling prices, rising rents and militant unionists. He judged the pastoralists' victory as a logical triumph of commonsense over the "threats and intimidation by certain union leaders' who were 'rightly rejected by the very bushmen they purported to represent".

Like other Victorian 'gold rushers' but not his Queensland confreres, Crombie was a protectionist who advocated state assistance to create a sturdy section of western grazing farmers. But these views were subordinated to the efforts he made to preserve dwindling family-structured pastoral empires mired in the quicksands of post-1889 Queensland. His utterances during 1894-95 reflect both their and his bewilderment at the threat of radical change and the frustrations of pioneer aspirations forged a generation before. Still, he had contributed substantially to the establishment and diversification of sound, productive rural enterprise in Queensland, and his conservative opinions concealed a successful rearguard action. He preserved family properties, helped maintain the political status quo and successfully curtailed the 'socialist menace' before Federation. D. B. Waterson, 'Crombie, James (1834 - 1898)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, Melbourne University Press, 1981, p. 155.²

He married Isabella Harriett Cameron, daughter of Donald Charles Cameron and Margaret Anne Moore, on 1 December 1869 in the Presbyterian Church, Springsure, Queensland.³ James Crombie died on 17 September 1898 in Oriel, Albion, Brisbane, at the age of 64 of pneumonia (heart disease according to ADB).^4,5 He was buried in the Presbyterian section of Toowong cemetery,
FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. J. CROMBIE.

The funeral of the late Mr. James Crombie, M.L.A., took place yesterday afternoon, and was very largely attended. Before the cortege started from the deceased gentleman's late residence, Oriel road, Albion, a most impressive service was conducted by the Rev. John Barr. The cortege then formed and moved into town, via Ann-street, where a large number of influential citizens joined in the mournful procession. Amongst those present were Sir Hugh Nelson, President of the Legis- lative Council ; Hons. B. B. Moreton, J. C. Smythe, R. Bulcock, F. T. Brentnall, Wm. Allen, William Forrest, MM.L.C; (Hons. J. Murray, R. Philp, J. R. Dickson, and D. H. Dalrymple, members of the Ministry ; Messrs F. Lord, R. H. Smith, A. S. Cowley, A. J. Callan, J. T. Annear, W. H. Corfield, W. Stephens, J. T. Bell, J. Stodart, W. J. Castling, W. H. B. O'Connell, J. Newell, J. M'Master, MM.L.A; Mr. Justice Real, Messrs. J. Chapman, A. M'Dowell Surveyor-General ; J. Munro (Q.N. Bank), W. V. Ralston (Q.N. Bank), H. P. Abbott, D. J. Abercrombie, Commercial Bank of Sydney), A. H. Hudson (Commercial Bank of Australia), J. Lee (Commercial Bank of Australia), Dr. Hill, S. McGregor, T. Noyes, J. Benson (Union Mortgage and Agency Company), J. Milne (Q.N. Bank), J. Forrest (Q.N. Bank), E. Denny Day (Royal Bank), Peter Thomp- son, Geo. Watson, A. D. Walsh (Dalgety and Co.), J. Macdonald (New Zealand Loan), A. C. Grant (Morehead and Co.), J. R. M'Swaine, Geo. Hannlngton, Rev. Canon Osborn, W. W. Hood, Geo. Scott, John Stevenson, Ebb-Smith, L. M'Gee, Fitz- gerald, M'Farlane, F. Ranson (secretary United Pastoralists' Association), and A. M. Francis.
On arrival at the Toowong Cemetery, a large number of relatives of the deceased gentleman were assembled, there being present Mrs. Crombie, widow of the deceased gentleman ; Mrs. M. A. Cameron, Mrs. P. Cameron, Mrs. Snow, and Mrs. Lawrence (sisters of the deceased). Miss Jessie Crombie (daughter), Misses May and Janet Crombie, and Miss Vera Cameron (nieces), Mr. James Crombie (the youngest son). The two eldest sons were not pre- sent, they being away on the station ; Messrs W. A. Snow and John A. Cameron (brothers-in-law).
The burial service at the grave was most impressive, and was conducted by the Revs. John Barr and T. Nisbet. The coffin was literally covered with wreaths and other floral offerings, which were of the most beautiful description. Wreaths were sent by the Ministry, Mrs. M. A. Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. Snow, Mrs. Beauchamp Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. M'Dowell, Mr. and Mrs. Abbott, the Misses Armes, Mrs. Lord, Mrs. Douglas Graham, Mrs. Drew, Miss Snow, Mr. and Mrs. R. Gray, Mrs. Andrew Petrie, Miss Lord, Mr. S. H. Eves, Mr. G. Foxton, Mrs. Herd, Mrs. Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. Steveneon (Fernberg), the members of the United Pastoralists' Association of Queenelandi, Mr. F. Ranson, Mr. A. D. Walsh, Mr. John Cameron, Mr. Dobinson, the members of the Queensland Stockbreed- ers and Graziers' Association, Miss Vera Cameron, Masters Percy and John Cameron, Mr. D. C. Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. Abercrombie, Mr. F. H. Morgan, Mr. Kennedy, Mrs. Graham, Mr. Max. Graham, Mr. A. J. Callan, Mr. Stevens, Mrs. W. W. Hood, Masters Allen and Kenneth Cameron. The Brisbane Courier, Tuesday 20 September 1898.²