Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns

GORDON CUMMINGS OF ALTYRE, &C. 475
11. William Gordon, born 20th July 1787, succeeded his father nth Feb-
ruary 1806, married, September 1815, Eliza Maria, eldest daughter of Colonel
Campbell of Shawneld by the Lady Charlotte Campbell, second daughter of
John, Duke of Argyll, who died 20th April 1842. Sir William Gordon Gordon
Cumming, married, secondly, Jane Eliza, daughter of William Mackintosh of
Geddes, and left issue by both.
12. James, born 20th September 1788, died 9th August 1792.
13. Charles Lennox, born 20th February 1790, married, 21st June 1820, Mary
Elizabeth Bruce of Kinnaird, whose name he assumed. On the death of his
father he had succeeded to the estates of Roseisle and Dunphail, the Dovellij of
1368.
14 Charlotte, born 9th April 1791, died June 1806.
15. John, born 23d December 1792, died 9th March 1794.
16. Edward, born 12th November 1793, died 30th November 1794.
Gordon Cummings of Altyre and Gordonstown.
Sir Alexander Cumming, on assuming the name of Gordon, placed it after
his own ; but his son " Sir William," finding that, in England, the last name was
that generally used, and being unwilling, as the chief of his clan, that his own
name should be obscured, changed the family appellation to " Gordon dim-
ming?
XIX. Sir William Gordon Gordon Cumming succeeded his father as second
baronet, nth February 1806.
He married " Eliza Maria," eldest daughter of Colonel Campbell of Shaw- Sept.
field by the Lady Charlotte Campbell, second daughter of John Duke of l8l 5
Argyle, by whom he had thirteen children —
I, Alexander Penrose, his heir; 2, Anne Seymour Conway; 3, Roualeyn
George ; 4, Henry ; 5, Adelaide Eliza ; 6, John Randolph ; 7, William Gordon ;
8, Alice Henrietta; 9, Eleanora ; 10, Constance, died young; n, Walter
Frederick, died young; 12, Constance Frederica ; 13, Francis Hastings Toone.
Of the sons — 1, Alexander Penrose became the third baronet ; 2, Roualeyn
George, known as the African Lion-Hunter, entered first the Madras Cavalry,
afterwards the Cape Mounted Rifles, died unmarried in March 1866 ; 3d, Henry,
married, 14th February 1859, Elizabeth Newton Stewart, daughter of Major
Lodovick Stewart of Drimmin* late of her Majesty's 42d Regiment, and has two
* Drimmin Castle and Kilmaickly, now forming a part of the Ballindalloch estate, were long held by
descendants of the Wolfe of Badenoch.