KENNEDY, Susanna ^{1 2}

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Susanna married Alexander MONTGOMERIE Lord Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton, son of Alexander MONTGOMERIE Lord Montgomerie, 8th Earl of Eglinton and Elizabeth CRICHTON, on 19 June 1709 in Kilwinning parish, Ayrshire, Scotland.^{1 2} (Alexander MONTGOMERIE Lord Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton was born about 1660,¹ died on 18 February 1729 in Place of Eglinton, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland ¹ and was buried on 20 March 1729 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"MONTGOMERY
ALEXANDER EARL
SUSANNA KENNEDY/FR265 (FR265)
19/06/1709
599 10 / 373
KILWINNING"

from Index of Marriages




"The Earl (Alexander Montgomerie) was three times married .... He married .... thirdly, in June 1709, Susanna, daughter of Sir Archibald Kennedy of Culzean, who survived him, and died his widow at Auchans House 18 March 1780, in the ninety-first year of her age, and fifty-first of her widowhood. Countess Susanna is said to have been the most beautiful woman of her time, of unusually tall stature, yet perfect both as to figure and carriage, and with a face of exquisite beauty. To the charms of her personal appearance were added the more powerful attractions of genius and great accomplishments. She was a great patroness of literary men ; Allan Ramsay, William Hamilton of Bangour, and others celebrated her charms and her virtues in their works. Many of her letters have been preserved, and show her a wise and tender mother, and she carefully managed her children and their affairs after her husband's death. She lived chiefly at Auchans House, and there she received Dr. Johnson, who was delighted with her, as their principles in Church and State were entirely similar. She was then in her eighty-fifth year, but Boswell describes her figure as majestic, her manner high bred, her reading extensive, and her conversation elegant. The Earl had issue, by his three wives, twenty children."

from Scots Peerage (vol 3) ^{1 2}