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Inverness / Re: Duncan & Rachel FRASER (n URQUHART/URCHARD) - DUTHIL
« on: Thursday 02 February 17 00:25 GMT (UK)  »
THANKS J11

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Inverness / Re: Elspeth CUMMING, Alex CUMMING, Ann MACKINTOSH - DOCHARN, DUTHIL, CROMDALE
« on: Wednesday 20 July 16 07:19 BST (UK)  »
I have sent you a PM Pauline. I look forward to chatting in detail.
Rose

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Inverness / Re: Elspeth CUMMING, Alex CUMMING, Ann MACKINTOSH - DOCHARN, DUTHIL, CROMDALE
« on: Wednesday 20 July 16 04:48 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Pauline Powell on Wednesday 20 July 16 04:01 BST (UK)
Our grandmother is Elsie Cumming Duncan.. I have Marj Howarth's book
Hi Pauline, if you post one more message here, I can then send you a personal message on this forum and we can then exchange personal email addresses and chat at length. I am travelling to scotland in the near future,... 
Kind regards, Rose

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Inverness / Re: Elspeth CUMMING, Alex CUMMING, Ann MACKINTOSH - DOCHARN, DUTHIL, CROMDALE
« on: Monday 18 July 16 23:33 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Pauline Powell on Monday 18 July 16 07:20 BST (UK)
Rose (I think this is your name).  My sister and I are in Australia.  What area are you?   I don't know how we get in touch.  Will await your reply.

Hi Pauline,
Thanks for writing.  I have responded above - still getting used to forum responses.
Regards,
    Rose

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Inverness / Re: Elspeth CUMMING, Alex CUMMING, Ann MACKINTOSH - DOCHARN, DUTHIL, CROMDALE
« on: Monday 18 July 16 23:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi Pauline,
I am in Australia too. 
Rachel was my Great Great Great Gradmother (via Nellie Duthoit).
I would like to make contact with you, via PM would be best,so if you can post two more responses below this, as per the administrators comment above, then we can PM.
Regards,
     Rose

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Inverness / Re: Elspeth CUMMING, Alex CUMMING, Ann MACKINTOSH - DOCHARN, DUTHIL, CROMDALE
« on: Saturday 02 July 16 11:45 BST (UK)  »
Thanks J11.
All related info is useful as it helps to complete the picture.
Rose

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Inverness / Re: Duthil Churchyard - tombstone inscription / churchyard plan
« on: Saturday 02 July 16 10:07 BST (UK)  »
THANKS Monica - have posted a request

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Inverness / Duthil Churchyard - tombstone inscription / churchyard plan
« on: Friday 01 July 16 15:45 BST (UK)  »
Greetings,

I am hoping that I can find the exact location of the following grave which is in the Duthil churchyard as listed in Alison Mitchell's Pre-1855 Speyside Gravestones (of which I do not have a copy but with kindly referenced to me) for:

Capt Alex Cumming, Docharn 12. 1826, 74, W Mary Grant d Docharn 4.12.1868

Thanks

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Inverness / Re: Elspeth CUMMING, Alex CUMMING, Ann MACKINTOSH - DOCHARN, DUTHIL, CROMDALE
« on: Friday 01 July 16 15:39 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: J11 on Thursday 30 June 16 10:27 BST (UK)
Freecen 1841 & 1851 Parish of Dores, Duthil and Rothiemurchus, address Docharn have a Mary Cumming, born Duthil c1774, widow, as head of the household.  In the 1851 it states that she was farming 60 acres and had 7 servants.  I wonder if she was Alexander's wife.
Quote from: J11 on Thursday 30 June 16 10:31 BST (UK)
Scotlands People have a Mary Cumming born 1774 dying in Duthil in 1868.  Likely to be her.
Quote from: J11 on Friday 01 July 16 00:06 BST (UK)
There is a grave in Duthil churchyard (funnily enough my 4XG grandparents, William and Anne Grant, are there too) listed in Alison Mitchell's Pre-1855 Speyside Gravestones as follows:

Capt Alex Cumming, Docharn 12. 1826, 74, W Mary Grant d Docharn 4.12.1868

Her entries are only edited versions.  If you put up a separate post for a monumental inscription someone may well have a photo and/or complete text.

THANKs J11,

I'm pretty sure that this Alex Cumming (Capt) is my 5th Great Grandfather, and I will follow up on the Duthil churchyard.

I know that in Scotland, 'Patrick' and 'Peter' were interchangeable names, but I am unsure as to whether 'Mary' and 'Ann' were (I doubt it)?

So my ancestor ELSPETH CUMMING's mother was definitely ANN MACKINTOSH. 

I'm not sure how illegitimacy was recorded,... in Scotland.  My research in other countries has shown that the name of the father of an illegitimate child is not recorded anywhere.  However on both ELSPETH marriage and death certificates she is noted as being the "illegimate duagther of Alex Cumming"  and "Alex Cumming reputed father".  That it was know that he was dead when she died, and that she called her 2nd born son Alexander, suggests that there was an 'amicable' relationship with him. 

It does look like Mary was Alex Cumming of Docharn's wife, from her death certificate, so I'm not sure what that means for Elspeth or Ann Mackintosh?

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