CUMMING, Alexander of Culter, MP, 1st Baronet, Sir 1
- Born: About 1670
- Marriage (1): SWINTON, Elizabeth about 1690 1
- Marriage (2): DENNIS, Elizabeth on 10 September 1710 1
- Died: 7 February 1725, Aberdeen, Scotland 1
Other names for Alexander were CUMIN, Alexander Baronet, Sir and CUMING, Alexander of Culter, Sir.2
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General Notes:
"Cuming
Alexander, Sir
12 / 4 / 1725
of Culter
Testament Dative and Inventory. See also Allardes, Helen.
Aberdeen Commissary Court
CC1/6/6"
"Cuming
Alexander, Sir
5 / 5 / 1725
of Culter
Eik. See also Allardes, Helen.
Aberdeen Commissary Court
CC1/6/6"
from Wills and Testaments
Note:
Helen Allardes was the mother of this laird. She survived her husband, the previous laird, and her own testament dative and inventory is dated 2 November 1725. 2
Alexander married Elizabeth SWINTON about 1690.1 (Elizabeth SWINTON was baptised on 4 April 1669 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Scotland 3 and died in 1709 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"(Sir Alexander Cumming 1st Baronet) m. c.1690, Elizabeth (d. 1709), da. of Sir Alexander Swinton, Lord Mersington SCJ, 1s. 2da. ..."
" ... his distant relationship with the house of Argyll, his first marriage into a prominent Covenanting family, to the godly daughter of Sir Alexander Swinton, 'the fanatic judge', and his sister's marriage into a dynasty of Presbyterian merchants in nearby Aberdeen, furnished him with numerous connexions ..."
from History of Parliament website
"Alexander Cumin, who was made a knight baronet, married Elizabeth Swinton, daughter to Alexander Swinton of Mersington, one of the Senators of the College of Justice. There [sic] eldest son and successor
XV. Captain Alexander Cumin, knight baronet, who married Anna Whitehall, daughter to Launcelot Whitehall, Esq. an Enghsh gentleman of the family of the Whitehalls in Shropshire, and late commissioner in the customs for Scotland, and with his lady has a son, Alexander, about five years of age."
from A System of Heraldry 1
Alexander next married Elizabeth DENNIS on 10 September 1710.1 (Elizabeth DENNIS was baptised on 7 June 1688 in St Thomas A becket parish, Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, England 4.)
Marriage Notes:
" m. c.1690, Elizabeth (d. 1709), da. of Sir Alexander Swinton, Lord Mersington SCJ, 1s. 2da.; (2) 10 Sept. 1710, Elizabeth (d. bef. 1739), da. and coh. of William Dennis (d. 1701) of Pucklechurch, Glos., 1s. 5da."
"Having become a widower in 1709, Cumming immediately began chasing fortunes, and in the following September 'carried off from the ring in Hyde Park Madam Dennis, and married her'."
from History of Parliament website 1
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