CUMMING, Alexander of Coulter, MP, 1st Baronet, Sir 1
- Born: About 1670
- Marriage (1): SWINTON, Elizabeth about 1690 1
- Marriage (2): DENNIS, Elizabeth on 10 September 1710 1
- Died: 7 February 1725, Aberdeen, Scotland 1
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Alexander married Elizabeth SWINTON about 1690.1 (Elizabeth SWINTON was baptised on 4 April 1669 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Scotland 2 and died in 1709 1.)
Marriage Notes:
" m. c.1690, Elizabeth (d. 1709), da. of Sir Alexander Swinton, Lord Mersington SCJ, 1s. 2da. ..."
" ... his distant relationship with the house of Argyll, his first marriage into a prominent Covenanting family, to the godly daughter of Sir Alexander Swinton, 'the fanatic judge', and his sister's marriage into a dynasty of Presbyterian merchants in nearby Aberdeen, furnished him with numerous connexions ..."
from History of Parliament website 1
Alexander next married Elizabeth DENNIS on 10 September 1710.1 (Elizabeth DENNIS was baptised on 7 June 1688 in St Thomas A becket parish, Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, England 3.)
Marriage Notes:
" m. c.1690, Elizabeth (d. 1709), da. of Sir Alexander Swinton, Lord Mersington SCJ, 1s. 2da.; (2) 10 Sept. 1710, Elizabeth (d. bef. 1739), da. and coh. of William Dennis (d. 1701) of Pucklechurch, Glos., 1s. 5da."
"Having become a widower in 1709, Cumming immediately began chasing fortunes, and in the following September 'carried off from the ring in Hyde Park Madam Dennis, and married her'."
from History of Parliament website 1
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