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CUMYN, William of Inverallochy, 4th (5th per Nisbet) of Culter
(About 1410-1483)
MELDRUM, Elizabeth
(About 1428-)
BURNET, Alexander 7th of Leys
(About 1435-1505)
FORBES, Elizabeth
(About 1444-1497)
CUMYN, Alexander 5th (6th per Nisbet) of Culter
(About 1445-1504)
BURNET, Christian
(About 1462-)
CUMINE, Alexander 6th (7th per Nisbet) of Culter, Sir
(About 1481-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. BLINSHALL, Elizabeth

CUMINE, Alexander 6th (7th per Nisbet) of Culter, Sir 1

  • Born: About 1481
  • Marriage (1): BLINSHALL, Elizabeth 1

   Another name for Alexander was CUMIN, Alexander.

   User ID: W480

  General Notes:

"Alexander Comyn's father (ie William Cumynof Inverallochy and Culter) died soon after this bond was entered into (ie after the bond of 1478 with Alexander Irvine of Drum)), but had, in his lifetime, succeeded, in despite of Drum, in alienating Inverallochy to his younger son. Christian Burnett's husband, however, got Tilliboy and Culter, and transmitted them to his son, another Alexander Comyn, who was served heir to him on 1st February, 1504-5
(Antiq. Ab. Banff, III., 340). On 5th July following, this younger Alexander Comyn made a formal protest before Alexander Bannerman of Waterton, Sheriff-Depute of Aberdeen, that his charter of the baronies of Culter and
Tilliboy, under the seal of Alexander II,, had been deposited for security in the custody of his lately deceased grandfather, Alexander Burnet of Leys, and had, when in his possession, the seal abstracted, to his serious
prejudice, a fact of which the Bishop of Aberdeen (Elphinstone) had made him aware.

Following a little further the fortunes of this Alexander Comyn, he resigned Culter and Tilliboy into the hands of James IV. just before Flodden, for a new charter incorporating them into the barony of Culter Cumyn, the precept being directed to the then lairds of Leys and Drum and their respective sons - and we hear of no more assertion of right to Culter by the Burnetts."

from Family of Burnett 2


Alexander married Elizabeth BLINSHALL, daughter of Robert BLINDSELL Provost of Aberdeen and Isabella WOOD.1 (Elizabeth BLINSHALL was born about 1482.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Alexander (Cumin), who married Elizabeth Blinshall, daughter to Sir Robert Blinshall of ---------- Provost of Aberdeen, and with her had his son and heir .... John"

from A System of Heraldry




"From this deed (charter dated on the 2nd May 1504) we learn that the Provost was the son of Robert Blinseile, by his wife Elizabeth Rutherford, and that he had married Isabella Wood, by whom he had at least one son, Ninian, and two daughters. Of the daughters, Elizabeth was married to Sir Alexander Cumine of Culter ..... "

from Aldermen and Provosts 1

Sources


1 e-books, Memorials of the Aldermen, Provosts, Lord Provosts of Aberdeen 1272-1895 by A. M. Munro (1897).

2 e-books, The Family of Burnett of Leys by George Burnett, ed. James Allardyce (1901).

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