CUMMING, Alexander of Earnside ¹

   Another name for Alexander was CUMING, Alexander of Ernside.²

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  General Notes:

"In July (1476) we find Thomas (Cuming of Altyre) cited as a sasine [sic]...of the lands of Dolace upon a crown precept. The witnesses to this were his son Alexander and a kinsman Alexander Cuming of Ernside."

from A History of Their Making ²

Alexander married Margaret LESLIE, daughter of George LESLIE Earl of Rothes and Margaret LUNDY.¹ (Margaret LESLIE was born about 1439.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Margaret (Leslie), who was engaged to be married to William Leslie, son and heir of Alexander Leslie of that Ilk in the Garioch, as appears by an obligation, dated 10th July 1458, whereby the said Alexander Leslie obliged himself to George, Earl of Rothes, Lord Leslie upon Leven, that if the marriage appointed betwixt William Leslie, his son and heir-apparent, or any other of his sons and apparent heirs, and Lady Margaret, the daughter of the said Earl of Rothes, by Margaret Lundin his spouse, or any other of the said earl's daughters, should not take place through the default of the said Alexander Leslie, or of his sons, then to pay to the said earl the sum of 500 merks, besides costs, skaith, and expenses in recovering the same.

It appears that Lady Margaret married Alexander Cumming of Ernside, which marriage is documented by an assignation by Lady Margaret Leslie, spouse of the late Alexander Cumming of Ernside, to George, Earl of Rothes, of £100 Scots, out of the lands of Dundurchouse, and other items which pertained to her in terce, when the lands should be redeemed by the heir of Alexander Cumming, for certain sums of money for which the said earl was bound in her marriage-contract. The assignation is dated 9th August 1488."

from Family of Leslie ¹