Mary Elizabeth Bruce

• Birth Notes
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    Mary Elzabeth Bruce, 9th of Kinnaird succeeded to the property in 1810 and was married 20th June 1822 to Charles Lennox Cumming (who assumed the name and arms of Bruce), 3rd son of Sir Alexander Cumming Gordon, Baronet of Altyre & Gordonstown. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Mary who succeeded to Kinnaird. Mrs. Cummings-Bruce was the author of "The Bruces and the Cumyns".
    Source: The Lands and Lairds of Larbert & Dunipace Parishes', John C. Gibson, 1908, quoted by Anne Anderson.
    

• Death Notes
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    Born in Kinnaird, Perthshire, Scotland?
    IGI: submitted record: Female Birth: About 1799 Kinnaird
    
    IGI extracted birth:  Mary Elizabeth Bruce,     
    28 MAR 1799       Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, father James Bruce, mother Elisabeth Spicer
    
    
    James Bruce's gravestone in car park at Larbert Old Church:
    Right Side of Stone
    "Sacred to the memory of ELIZABETH CUMMING BRUCE
    Grand daughter and heiress of JAMES BRUCE of Kinnaird
    Born 1799, married 1820 and died at Kinnaird in 1875
    Also her husband CHARLES LENNOX CUMMING BRUCE of Dunphial and Roseisle     
    Born at Altyre February 20th 1790
    Representative of the United Counties of Elgin and Nairn and previously of the
    Inverness District of Burghs during ten successive parliaments from 1851 to 1869"
    Died at Broomhall January 1st 1875
    
    Her grave: BRUCE, Elizabeth Cumming died 1875 aged 76 source: Anne Anderson