Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns

BRUCES OF KINCAVEL.
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James Brace,
died 27th April 1794.
= Married, 20th May 1776, Mary Dundas, who
died 10th February 17S5, aged 31 years.
Robert,
born 25th February 1777,
died 10th November 1778.
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Janet Maitland,
born 6th May 1778,
married John Jardine, advocate.
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James,
born 28th June 17S0,
succeeded his father.
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James Bruce
succeeded his father in 1794. Being still a minor,
his education was intrusted to Dr Knox, and
subsequently to Hector M'Neil, the poet, who
travelled with him to the Channel Islands and
the south of England, his lungs being delicate,
and the Continent closed.
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Mary Elizabeth
succeeded her father in 1S10. One daughter,
born in Edinburgh, April 13, 1821.
Elizabeth Mary,
Countess of Elgin and Kincardine, died at
Craigton, in Jamaica, 7th June 1843, and was
buried in the Cathedral of St Catharine's, Span-
ish Town, where a white marble monument is
erected to her memory.
Married Elizabeth Spicer, daughter of William
Spicer, Esq. of Wear, county of Devon, by
Elizabeth Parker, daughter of Francis Parker of
Blagden, in the same county, uncle of the first
Lord Boringdon, ancestor of the present Earl of
Morley.
Mr Brace died in Edinburgh in June 1S10,
leaving an only daughter.
Married, June 21, 1820, Charles Lennox dim-
ming, 2d son of Sir Alexander Cumming
Gordon of Altyre and Gordonstown, Bart.
Married, 22d April 1841, James Lord Bruce,
who succeeded his father the same year as eighth
Earl of Elgin and twelfth Earl of Kincardine ;
had by this, his 1st marriage, I daughter, the
Lady Elma Bruce, who married the Hon.
Thomas J. Hovell-Thurlow, and has a son,
James Frederick.
BRUCES OF KINCAVEL.
Sir John Bruce was the third son of Sir Alexander Bruce of Airth, Knight,
by Dame Janet Livingstone.
He had from his father a charter of Westbordland, in Denny.
Sir John Brace
His sons were — 1. Alexander ; 2. Robert,
minister of Aberdour ; 3. Walter ; 4. William ;
5. John of Wrae.
His daughter, Margaret Brace, married Sir
John Stirling of Garden, Knight. Her brothers
appear as witnesses.
Circa
1582.
Married Jeane Drammond, eldest daughter of
Sir Robert Drammond of Medhope, the last
laird thereof, for his only son was killed at the
battle of Auldearn, a.d. 1645.
" At Kincavill and Edinbro' the 13th day of October, the yeir of God i m vi c
and threttie-aught yeires. It is appoyntit, &c. &c, betwixt Sir John Stirling of
Garden, Knight, with speciall adveyse, consent, and assent of Archibald Stirling,
fiar of Garden, his eldest lawful son and apparent heir, on the ane pairt, and
' Margaret Bruce,' lawful daughter of umquhile Sir John Bruce of Kincavell,
Knight, with special adveyse, consent, and assent of Dame Jeane Drummond,
Lady Kincavell, hir mother, Mr Robert and Walter and William Bruces for