FRASER, Margaret ²

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  General Notes:

"At Aulderne, 20 Junii 1627, it is finallie aggreit betuix the richt honorabill personis . . . Robert Cumming of Alter, and Margaret Fraser ladie of Alter his mother, for themselfis as principallis, and takand the burdene in and vpone tham for Jeane Cuming, sister-germane to the said Robert, and the said Jeane for hir selfe, hir awin entres and with hir consent, and ane nobill and potent Lord Simon Lord Fraser of Lowat, Hew Maister of Lowatt, Robert Innes of Balvenie and Alexander Dunbar of Auchleisk, as cautioneris sowerties and full debtoris for and with the saidis Robert Cumming of Alter, and Margaret Fraser his mother, on that ane part, and Dauid Hay of Lochloye for him selfe, with expreis advise, consent, and consall of the richt honorabill Sir Alexander Hay of Frosterseat, knicht, ane of the senatouris of our sowerane lordis Colledge of Justice, for ther entres to quhome the said Dauid is interdictit, and the said Dauid takand the burdine in and vpone him for Johne Hay, his eldest lauchfull sone and apperand air, and the said Johne Hay for him self, his awin entres, and with his consent, on that vther part, in maner, forme and effect as efter followis ; that is to say, the said Johne sail, Godwilling, marie and take to his laufull spoussit wyif the said Jeane Cumming ; lykwayis on the vther pairt, the said Jeane sail, be the aduyse and consent of the saidis Robert and Margaret, marie and tak the said Johne Hay to hir laufull spous . . . The said Dauid Hay of Lochloy ... to vest, seas and infeft the said Jeane Cumming in lyverent, and the said Johne Hay his eldest laufull sone and tlie airis raaill laufullie to be gottiu betwix thame, quliilkis I'ailyeing the .said Johne Hay his narrest and laufull airis maill, in all and haill the tounis and landis of Lochloye, aillhouss and aillhouss croftis, Lon haid, Killhill heads, Padokfuird, Drumdeiverr, laudis of Milhill, with the mill of Milhill, multuris and sequillis of the samen, and in all and haill the landis of Knoknagellie, Knokcowdie and Bellaehagane, with thair houssis, biggingis . . . reservvand aiwayis the foirsaidis landis of Knokcowdie and Bellachagane and ther pertinentis, &c., to Elizabeth Monro, guidwyff of Bougis, during all the davis of hir lyftyme . . . and in all and haill the landis of Keattcastell and Reatinlon, with the mill of Reatt, etc.... "

from Family of Rose of Kilravock




"Robert, his son, has seizen in 1630, probably on his mother's death, who liferented Tulliduvie. Her fortune had been 37,000 merks, but the expenditure exceeding the income during the lifetime of her husband and his father, many lands were wadset to cadets of the family, but none heritably disponed until circa 1660...."

from Bruces and Cumyns ^{1 2}

Margaret married James CUMMING 'of Alter', son of Thomas CUMMING of Altyre and Margaret GORDON, by November 1602.¹ (James CUMMING 'of Alter' was born about 1574 and died in 1625 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"By all these charters it will be seen that James Cumyn married, secondly, during his father's lifetime, Margaret Fraser, daughter of Hugh, sixth Lord Lovat (first on the Rolls of Parliament, A.D. 1540), and sister of Symon, Lord Lovat. She brought to him a tocher of 37,000 merks, a considerable sum in those days, but not sufficient, it appears, to meet current expenses during his father's lifetime, so that many lands were wadsett."

"1602. Charter by James Cuming, fiar of Alter, heritable possessor of Tulliduvie, by which (his first wife being dead) he enters into a contract of marriage with 'Margaret Fraser, sister to Symon Fraser, Lord Lovat,' and settles upon her the liferent of the said lands."

"1615 Charter by James Cuming, Baron of Altyre, and Margaret Fraser, his wife, to James Cuming in Relugas, and Dorothy Dunbar, his wife, of the fourth part of Tulliduvie, called Relugas, and also of the fourth part of Dollesbrauchtie, in the regality of Spynie. Dated at Altyre, 3d June 1615."

from Bruces and Cumyns