CUMMING, James

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James married Elizabeth JACKSON after 1725. (Elizabeth JACKSON was born about 1700.)

  Marriage Notes:

"During James (Grant)'s long absence, when it would well have been presumed that he was no longer alive, the dormant baronetcy of Dalvey was, in 1752, secured by a descendant of Duncan Grant of Gartenbeg's first wife, a half blood relative of the first baronet, who was a descendant of Duncan's second wife. Some eight years later, and after James had reappeared, a printed memorial, dated 8 August 1760, was, at the instigation of James Grant's half brother, Alexander Cumming, son of James's mother by her second husband, James Cumming, [71] submitted for James Grant Claimant against Alexander Grant of Dalvey'. However, the proceedings appear to have been halted by arrangement and possibly influence."

from Family Tree by Rear-Admiral John Grant