LOSSNER, Catharina ¹

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Catharina married First husband UNKNOWN.¹ (First husband UNKNOWN was born about 1725.)

  Marriage Notes:

" In 1794 Lachlan (Cuming) married Catherine Lossner's daughter from her first marriage, Margaretha, who was herself already a widow."

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Catharina next married Thomas CUMING elder, of Demerara, son of Alexander CUMING 3rd of Craigmill, Jacobite 1745, taken at Culloden and Elizabeth TULLOCH, about 1780.¹ (Thomas CUMING elder, of Demerara was born about 1740,^{1 2} died on 26 March 1813 in Elgin, Moray, Scotland ² and was buried on 31 March 1813 in Churchyard of Dallas parish, Moray, Scotland ^{2 3}.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Thomas Cuming was born in 1739/40, the son of Alexander Cumming (3rd of Craigmill, Dallas, Moray) and Elizabeth Tulloch. His father died in London in 1746, probably as a prisoner, following his support for the Jacobite rising of 1745. Thomas (Cuming) had five sisters and an older brother, William.

He was in Demerara by c1760. About 1768 he married a Dutch widow, six years his senior, Catharina Lossner, whose father had been governor of Berbice. Thomas wrote to his first cousin, William Rose, in July of that year saying:

I have reason to be thankful for my choice of a wife with whom I enjoy a large share of conjugal Felicity. [Domestic Papers of the Rose Family, Aberdeen, 1926]

In the same letter he indicated his intention, which was not realised, to sell his estates in Demerary and return to Scotland, by way of Holland. He also thanked William Rose for the help he had given to Thomas's mother and his sisters in Scotland.

Thomas and Catharina had one child, named Catherine \'96 an unexpected arrival in 1782 since the mother was in her late forties. Thomas named one of his properties Plantation Kitty \'96 after either his wife, or his daughter, or both. Thomas had already been joined in Demerara by another Cuming, from the same Moray parish of Dallas \'96 Lachlan [Cuming]. Lachlan's father, Patrick (Peter) Cumming was a half-brother of Thomas's father. In a place where many died of fever, family relationships often became complex. In 1794 Lachlan married Catherine Lossner's daughter from her first marriage, Margaretha, who was herself already a widow."

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