CUMING, William Jacobite 1745, at Culloden then in France ²

   Other names for William were CUMIN, William ³ and CUMING, Guillaume of Craigmiln.⁴

   User ID: L408.

  General Notes:

"Craigmiln and Logie.

.... William Cumin, whilst he resided at Logie, married Katharine, daughter of John Brodie of Windyhills, and had many descendants ; one of whom, William Cumin, his grandson (see Note below) by his eldest son, Alexander Cumin of Craigmiln, and Mrs Elizabeth Tulloch his wife, was an officer in the French service, secretary and aide-de-camp to Prince Xavier of Saxony. He had a genius for a military life ; and as early as the 1745 - by the persuasion of his friends connected in that cause, which involved so many families in Scotland - along with his father, joined the Duke of Perth. They were both on the field of Culloden, 16th April 1746. The father, in anxiety about his son, waited searching for him, was surrounded and taken prisoner with many others to Inverness, thence to London, where, by hardships and cold, he died in July of that year ; but the son escaped and went to France, where he got a commission in Lord John Drummond's regiment, and acquired the rank of colonel in the army of Louis XVIII. , having in the course of the late troubles undergone great hardships and the forfeiture of his estate. He married a French lady, by whom he had two sons, Andrew and Thomas, who appear to have married and settled in Demerara - and a daughter, married tto a French nobleman."

from Bruces and Cumyns

Note:

The William Cuming of this file, son of Alexander Cuming and Elizabeth Tulloch, was the great-grandson, not the grandson, of the William Cuming referred to in the opening of the paragraph quoted above.




"Decree of recognition of ancient Scottish nobility, the content of which follows:

"Extract from the registers of the King's Council of State on the petition presented to the King (Louis XVI) in his Council by Guillaume Cuming-of Craigmiln, Captain of Infantry, aide-de-camp to Prince Xavier of Saxony and Knight of the Military Order of Saint Louis, stating that he is descended from a noble and ancient Scottish family as distinguished by its alliances as by its possessions and by the Jobs it has filled in this Kingdom.

James Cuming, one of the authors of the Suppliant, Esquire, Lord of Regulas (Relugas), descended from the ancient lords of Badenoch, and had contracted an alliance with Jeanne, daughter of James Hay-de-Park, Esquire. (see Note 1 below) His son was William Cuming-of Craigmiln, married to Catherine, daughter of Robert Brodie-of Wendy-hills, Esquire, (see Note 2 below) from whom was born William the second, who married Marie, daughter of Thomas Ogilvy of Redhyth, Esquire. Their son Alexander Cuming-of Craigmiln married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Tulloch of Tannachie, from a noble and illustrious family on both her father's and mother's sides: it is from this marriage that the Suppliant was born. The facts he has just had the honour of explaining are recorded in a Genealogy inserted in the Archives of the King of Arms of Leon in Scotland and attested by him, according to his Certificate of 21 May 1779 legalised by the Earl of Weymouth, Secretary of State to the King of England. The same facts are also certified by the principal officers of the town of Elgin and the burgh of Forres in Scotland, as well as by Chevalier Grant and Sir Alexandre Cuming-of Altyre, Esquire, head of the Cuming family, Franc-Tenancier and Justice of the Peace of the town of Elgin, and finally by the Earl of Wemys, Peer of Scotland, former Colonel in the Royal Scottish Regiment, by the Earl Drummond-of Melfort, Marshal of His Majesty's Camps and Armies, and by the Chevalier Naime and Sir Huart, Captains in the same Regiment in which the Suppliant also served as Captain.

And as according to the privileges granted by His Majesty to those of the Scottish Nation who serve in his armies, and confirmed by the concordat made in 1744 with the Royal Scottish Regiment, they must enjoy in his Kingdom the same rights which he holds by birth and which he would enjoy in his homeland. For these reasons the Suppliant requested that His Majesty be pleased to recognise him as a Noble and Gentleman of ancient extraction of name and Arms, in which he will be maintained, and consequently to order that the Suppliant as well as his children and posterity, born and to be born in lawful wedlock, will be held, deemed and reputed to be ancient Nobles and Gentlemen in all acts and places, both in and out of Court, ..."

from email of Victoire Grux

Note:

1

For remarks on the name of Jean Hay's father, please view the Marriage Notes in the file for Jean Hay, User ID W473, wife of James Cuming of Presley and Dollesbrauchtie.

2

As gleaned from other sources, the father in law of William Cuming , husband of Katharine Brodie, was known as John Brodie of Windyhills, not Robert.< ^{3 4}

  Research Notes:

THANKS

Patrick's People is grateful for information shared by Victoire Grux.

William married Françoise GUILLEMOT.¹ (Françoise GUILLEMOT was born about 1740.)

  Marriage Notes:

"(André-Pierre) Cuming de Craigmillen's father, William, was a Scot who had fought aged 18, at the disastrous battle of Culloden in 1746 and fled alone to France immediately afterwards. He subsequently forged a very successful military career and rose to become aide de camp to Prince Francois-Xavier de Saxe, uncle of Louis XVI. He married a Frenchwoman, Francoise Guillemot, and the couple had nine children."

from Napoleon's First Snowball Fight ¹