LUMSDEN, John 5th of Cushnie ^{1 2}

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John married Janet MORTIMER, daughter of John MORTIMER of Craigievar and Unknown.¹ (Janet MORTIMER was born about 1562.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John (Lumsden) married Janet Mortimer of Craigievar, and had a family of four sons and two daughters. Like his father, though not in the same way, he helped to waste the estate, for, says his son in the MS. I have so often quoted, he 'did possess these lands very peaceable many years, and did beget with his spouse four male children and two lasses, and was not careful to provide any money to the children, but did live carelessly being free of all troubles, spended the free rent and did contract 7000 merks of debt.' Nay, when this debt was in part paid off by the tocher of his son's wife, he contracted more, and, in short, as Robert bitterly says, 'was always contracting debt.' "

from Families of Lumsden ¹