MELDRUM, Elizabeth 1
- Born: About 1428
- Marriage (1): CUMYN, William of Inverallochy, 4th (5th per Nisbet) of Culter 1
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Elizabeth married William CUMYN of Inverallochy, 4th (5th per Nisbet) of Culter, son of James CUMIN of Inverallochy, 3rd (4th per Nisbet) of Culter and Elizabeth IRVINE.1 (William CUMYN of Inverallochy, 4th (5th per Nisbet) of Culter was born about 1410 and died by 1483 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"William Cumin, who married Elizabeth Meldrum, daughter to Sir William Meldrum of Fyvie, knight, and with her begot Alexander, his eldest son, and William Cumin his second ; the eldest married Christian Burnet, daughter to the Laird of Leys, his near kinswoman, and for the consanguinity procured a dispensation from the pope, dated the 11th January 1480, now in the hands of Cumin of Coulter. His father, William, disliking the marriage, did dispone to his second son, William, the lands of Inverallachy, and others he had then in Buchan, and reserved only the barony of Coulter with the pertinents to his eldest son."
from A System of Heraldry
"Alexander Burnet died shortly before 15th July, 1505 (Antiq. Ab. Banff, III., 341), leaving issue, besides his heir Alexander, a son Andrew, witness to a sasine in 1507 {Ibid., IV., 740), and a daughter, Christian, who in 1480 or 1481 married, in terms of a papal dispensation on the ground of propinquity, Alexander Cumyn, eldest son of William Cumyn of Culter.+ "
"(footnote) + Nisbet gives the following account of this marriage, Appendix, p. 57. Cumin of Coulter. ' V. William Cumin, who married Elizabeth Meldrum, daughter to Sir William Meldrum of Fyvie, Knight, and with her begot Alexander, his eldest son, and William Cumin his second the eldest married Christian Burnet, daughter to the Laird of Leys, his near kinswoman, and for the consanguinity procured a dispensation from the Pope, dated 11th January, 1480, now in the hands of Cumin of Coulter. His father, William, disliking the marriage, did dispose to his second son, William, the lands of Inverallachie and others he then had in Buchan, and reserved only the barony of Coulter with the pertinents to his eldest son." (pages 14 and 15)
from Family of Burnett 1
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