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CUMMING, Ferquhard of Lochtervandich
(About 1490-)
LESLIE, Daughter
(About 1519-)
GRANT, Duncan younger of Freuchie
(About 1541-1581)
MACINTOSH, Margaret
(About 1551-After 1627)
CUMMING, George of Lochtervandich
(About 1539-Before 1567)
GRANT, Margaret
(About 1568-)
CUMMING, George of Lochtervandich, Merchant, Provost of Elgin
(About 1600-1689)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. LESLIE, Marjory

2. GORDON, Lucretia

CUMMING, George of Lochtervandich, Merchant, Provost of Elgin 3 4

  • Born: About 1600
  • Marriage (1): LESLIE, Marjory 1
  • Marriage (2): GORDON, Lucretia 2
  • Died: 20 September 1689 1 2

   Other names for George were CUMING, of Elgin, laird of Auchray, Provost,5 CUMING, Laird of Achry,6 CUMMIN, George of Lochtervandech 1 and CUMYN, George.2

   User ID: X945.

  General Notes:

1658-1664 George Cumming of Lochtervandich
1664-1665 William Cumming of Banff
1665-1668 Thomas Calder
1668-1687 George Cumming of Lochtervandich

from List of Provosts of Elgin


"...in 1659 George Cumming (subsequently Provost of Elgin) bought Lynmore, Soccach & Dellacham (N end of Glenrinnes, Mortlach parish) which passed to Margaret only daughter of Alexr Cumming, Recletich (mid-Glenrinnes)..."

from Epitaphs and Inscriptions



"George Cuming, Provest of Elgin, for his lands off Bregachie and Lochterwandich."

from Records of the County of Banff


"XL Here Lyes George Cummin of Lochtervandech, sometime Provost of Elgin, who died the 20 of September, 1689; and his spouse, Mariore Leslie, who died in September, the yeir of God 1656."

from History of Moray 1 7 8 9

  Research Notes:

Lochtervandich also written as 'Lochterlandich'. 5


George married Marjory LESLIE, daughter of Dr William LESLIE of King's College, Aberdeen.1 (Marjory LESLIE was born about 1615 and died in September 1656 1 2.)


  Marriage Notes:

"XL Here Lyes George Cummin of Lochtervandech, sometime Provost of Elgin, who died the 20 of September, 1689; and his spouse, Mariore Leslie, who died in September, the yeir of God 1656."

from History of Moray




"The seventh in direct descent from the said Duncan was George Cumyn, born about the year 1600. He succeeded to the family estate, and was also a merchant trader in the burgh of Elgin, and for thirty years provost thereof. He married Marjorie, daughter of William Leslie of Kinninvie, by whom he had, 1, William his heir 2, George, minister of Essie, near Speymouth, from 1678-1723, who married a daughter of Archibald Geddes of Essie, by whom he had two sons, both clergymen in the Church of England]. His eldest daughter married King of Newmill, Provost of Elgin. His second daughter married John Hay, Dean of Moray."

from Bruces and Cumyns 1

George next married Lucretia GORDON, daughter of John GORDON 'merchant burgess of Elgyne' and Unknown.2 (Lucretia GORDON was born about 1615 and died in 1668 2.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Marjorie Leslie died in September 1656, and George Cumyn married, secondly, Lucretia Gordon. Her monument exists in St Mary's aisle, Elgin Cathedral :

'Here lies the body of Lucretia Gordon, spouse of George Cumyn, some time Provost of Elgin,' who died in September 1668. The arms are those of the Gordons of Kinnedar."

from Bruces and Cumyns 2

Sources


1 e-books, The History of the Province of Moray vol. 1 by Lachlan Shaw Epitaphs in the Churchyard of Elgin Cathedral.

2 e-books, Family Records of the Bruces and the Cumyns by M. E. Cumming Bruce (1870).

3 e-books, Scottish Episcopal Clergy 1689-2000 ed. David Bertie (in paper 2001).

4 e-books, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae by Hew Scott.

5 e-books, Epitaphs and Inscriptions from Burial Grounds and Old Buildings by Andrew Jervise (1875).

6 e-books, Genealogy of the Family of Forbes from the account of Mathew Lumsden 1580 ed. William Forbes (1819).

7 Internet Site, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Provosts_of_Elgin.

8 ancestry.co.uk, Message Board: Cummings in Mortlach Stuart Mitchell 31 Oct 2000 Surnames: Cumming.

9 e-books, Records of the County of Banff 1660-1760 compiled by James Grant (1922) Roll at Michaelmas 1675.

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