SWINTON, Elizabeth ¹

   Other names for Elizabeth were CUMING, Elizabeth, Dame ³ and SWINTOUN, Elizabeth.²

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  General Notes:

"SWINTOUN
ELIZABETH
ALEXANDER SWINTOUN/ALISON SKEEN FR1978 (FR1978)
F
04/04/1669
685/1 70 22
Edinburgh"

from Births and Baptisms




"Cuming
Elizabeth, Dame
16 / 1 / 1730
relict of Sir Alexander C. of Culter, Baronet
Testament Dative and Inventory
Aberdeen Commissary Court
CC1/6/11"

from Wills and Testaments ^{2 3}

Elizabeth married Sir Alexander CUMMING of Culter, MP, 1st Baronet, son of Alexander CUMMING 12th (13th per Nisbet) of Culter and Helen ALLARDICE, about 1690.¹ (Sir Alexander CUMMING of Culter, MP, 1st Baronet was born about 1670 and died on 7 February 1725 in Aberdeen, Scotland 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