RAIT, Elizabeth 1
User ID: K496. Elizabeth married Robert LUMSDEN 6th of Cushnie, son of John LUMSDEN 5th of Cushnie and Janet MORTIMER, in 1615.1 (Robert LUMSDEN 6th of Cushnie was born about 1590.) Marriage Notes: "Robert (Lumsden), who married, in 1615, Elizabeth Rait, daughter of the laird of Hallgreen, and as he tells us himself, 'they being young in years, were both content to live some years in household' with his father. Elizabeth was a very loving wife, as her husband more than once in his imbroglio of a manuscript testifies. She brought him 4000 merks of tocher (what became of it we know too well !) and some substantial provision was made for her jointure, besides 'six firlots of bere, and three pecks gottin from my lord of Pitsligo for liberty of peats yearly in our mossess in the Glen of Cushney, and moss of Craiglochan ;' along with 'an right to the haill linen and woollen plenishing, both for back and bed, with the haill chists and fire vessels, as pots, pans, girdle, spits, raxes, trunks, and all other necessaries which are in her possession ; as chairs with a little board, and three stand beds, and ane amrie, and capamrie, and all other small necessaries, and this generally to comprehend every particular.' Robert's brothers seem to have died before him, and he had no children of his own, so at his death the estate passed to his cousin, the son of Alexander Lumsden of Clova." |