LUMSDEN, John 11th of Cushnie ¹

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John married Ann FORBES, daughter of Captain John FORBES 8th of Newe and Ann GRANT, on 8 September 1757.¹ (Ann FORBES was born about 1737.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John, the eldest son of Harry Lumsden of Cushnie, was born in 1727, and succeeded to the estates on his father's death. He did more, perhaps, than all his predecessors to waste the property, and he managed to get rid of half of it before he died .... He married, on the 8th September, 1757, Ann, daughter of Captain John Forbes of Newe, and had by her eleven children, three of whom died young."

" .... his two daughters, Ann and Catherine, had died in childhood....

His sons were - I. Henry, born 1759, died s.p. cir. 1782. II. John, born 1761, who succeeded him. III. James, born 1764.... IV. David .... V. William ... VII. and VIII. Of Alexander, born 1771, and Robert, born 1776, I know nothing .... IX. Matthew, the youngest son, born 1777"

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