 The land around Abercrombie was formerly owned by the Sandilands family and Sir James Sandilands was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Abercrombie in 1647.Lord Abercrombie wasted his estates following the death of his father and had to sell his properties in Fife in 1649.The title became extinct on the death of the second Lord Abercrombie in 1681.