Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns

454 CUMYNS OF LOCHTERVANDICH, &c.
1384. As eldest son and heir of Sir Richard Cumyn (probably on his marriage), he
got a charter from Robert II. of the forestry of Drummynd and Tulloch, and
of several davochs of land thereunto belonging. His father Sir Richard was
still alive in 1407, when he signed as witness to the charter at Falkland, but
appears to have died before the 28th of May 1408, when the marriage-contract
of his grandson with Euffame, daughter of the Earl of Moray, was signed.
Ferquhard Cumyn of Altre married Janet, daughter of John Cameron of
Lochyell, chief of that clan, by whom he left three sons — 1, Alexander, his
heir ; 2, Thomas ; and, 3, John, mentioned in 1422 in a donation to the Abbey
of Cambuskenneth.
In some old writings this John, third son of Ferquhard Cumyn, is called
" progenitor of the Cummings of Inverallachie," by his son Jordanus. If so,
John must have married the heiress of that branch of Aberdeenshire Cumyns,
and his son must have been named after its first founder, " Jurdan Cumyn,"
whose charter, from Alexander Earl of Buchan, dates from 1277, of which also
there is a confirmation charter by King James III. in Pub. Archiv., dated 12th
April 1475, in which the first grant of 1277 is mentioned.
Cumyns of Lochtervandich, Auchray, Pittulie, and Rattray.
Sir Richard Cumyn's second son Duncan was also well provided for. He
got from his father the lands of Lochtervandich, the half dauch of Auchmore,
in Glenrinnes, the dauchs of Riven, Tomoclaggen, and Glenconylan, in Strath-
aven ; the dauchs of Enoch and Pitglasses, in Auchindown.
Duncan married a daughter of William Mackintosh of that ilk (chief of his
clan), and died in the beginning of the reign of Robert III., leaving a son
named Ferquhard, who married a daughter of the Earl of Mar. He died A.D.
1406, and was buried at Mortlach, within the old church, as appears by his
tombstone, still extant (Nov. 1865). The seventh in direct descent from the
said Duncan was George Cumyn, born about the year 1600. He succeeded to
the family estate, and was also a merchant trader in the burgh of Elgin, and
for thirty years provost thereof. He married Marjorie, daughter of William
Leslie of Kinninvie, by whom he had, 1, William his heir [2, George, minister
of Essie, near Speymouth, from 1678-1723, who married a daughter of Archibald
Geddes of Essie, by whom he had two sons, both clergymen in the Church of
England]. His eldest daughter married King of Newmill, Provost of Elgin.
His second daughter married John Hay, Dean of Moray.
Marjorie Leslie died in September 1656, and George Cumyn married,