Grace Pearce

Grace married Alexander Cumming on 13 Jul 1747 in Penryn, Cornwall. Alexander (son of Alexander Cumming and Anne Wortley) was born on 3 Nov 1724 in Elgin, Moray, Scotland; died on 5 Dec 1761 in Penrose, Cornwall; was buried on 8 Dec 1761 in Sithney, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was given the name of Alexander Cumming at birth. He was commissioned in 1794 with the rank of officer, in the service of the 13th Regiment. His name was legally changed to Alexander Gordon-Cumming under the terms of the will of Sir William Gordon of Gordonstoun, 1st Bt. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Strathspey Fencibles. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Inverness Burghs.
He suppressed a mutiny at Dumfries. He was created 1st Baronet Gordon-Cumming, of Altyre and of Gordonstoun, co. Moray on 21 May 1804. He lived at Altyre, Morayshire, Scotland. He lived at Gordonstoun, Scotland

See http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/cumming-gordon-alexander-penrose-1749-1806

Alexander married Helen Grant on 9 Sep 1773 in Moray, Scotland. Helen (daughter of Sir Ludovic Colquhoun Grant, 7th Baronet and Margaret Ogilvy) was born on 26 May 1754 in Altyre House, Rafford, Moray, Scotland; died on 1 Jan 1832 in Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Helen married Archibald Dunbar, 6th Baronet of Northfield on 6 Nov 1794 in Forres, Moray, Scotland. Archibald (son of Alexander Dunbar, 5th Bt. Of Northfield & Thunderton and Margaret Arbuthnott) was born on 30 Jun 1772 in Moray, Scotland; died on 29 Mar 1847 in Moray, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Eliza Maria Campbell on 11 Sep 1815 in Zurich, Switzerland. Eliza was born in 1794 in Rafford, Moray, Scotland; died on 21 Apr 1842 in Altyre, Rafford, Moray, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1871, Duffus, Moray, Scotland
• Residence: 1891, Duffus, Moray, Scotland
• Death: 7 Jan 1898

Archibald married Keith Alicia Ramsay on 12 Jun 1827. Keith (daughter of George Ramsay and Jean Hamilton Young) was born on 1 Jan 1805 in Cramond, Midlothian, Scotland; died on 15 Mar 1836. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Archibald married Sophia Orred on 5 Nov 1840 in St Oswald's Church, Chester. Sophia (daughter of George Orred and Elizabeth Woodville) was born on 20 Dec 1813 in Tranmere Hall, Cheshire,; died on 2 Jun 1909 in Duffus, Moray, Scotland; was buried in Duffus, Moray, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anna Sophia Hagar on 20 Dec 1825. Anna was born on 29 Apr 1806 in Hampshire; died on 17 May 1863 in London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Christening: 28 Aug 1816, Rafford, Moray, Scotland

Alexander married Anne Pitcairn Campbell on 28 Nov 1845 in Rafford, Moray, Scotland. Anne (daughter of Rev. Augustus Campbell and Elizabeth Aspinall) was born on 17 Dec 1819 in Liverpool, Lancashire; died on 18 Aug 1888 in Gordonstoun, Morayshire, Scotland; was buried on 22 Aug 1888 in Gordonstoun, Morayshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1871, London
• Occupation: 1875-1877, Granada, West Indies; Anglican Archdeacon of Grenada
• Residence: 1891, Walthamstow, Essex

Notes:

Charles Gordon-Cumming-Dunbar, DD (b Elgin 14 February 1844 - d Ramsgate 8 January 1916) was an Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He was educated at Winchester College and the University of Jena; and ordained in 1867. His first post was as Chaplain to the Bishop of Colombo. After that he refused the chance to be the first Bishop of Pretoria but accepted the Archdeaconry of Grenada, serving from 1875 to 1877. On his return he held incumbencies at Little Heath and Walthamstow.

On 17 October 1872 he married Edith Wentworth (1845–1891), youngest daughter of William Charles Wentworth. He had one daughter Beatrix Leyla Marjorie Wentworth who died on 8 January 1919, leaving issue.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Gordon-Cumming-Dunbar,_9th_Baronet

Charles married Edith Wentworth on 17 Oct 1872 in Knightsbridge, London. Edith (daughter of William Charles (Crowley) Wentworth and Sarah Morton Cox) was born on 1 Jan 1845 in Vaucluse House, Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia; died on 31 Jan 1891 in Avenue De L'Alma, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Arbuthnott married Catharina Hester Orred in 1873. Catharina was born on 30 Jul 1846; died on 26 Jul 1915 in Frensham, Surrey; was buried in Duffus, Moray, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Christening: 8 Sep 1848, Forres, Moray, Scotland

Notes:

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Alexander Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet (20 July 1848 – 20 May 1930) was a Scottish landowner, soldier, adventurer and socialite. A notorious womaniser, he is best known for being the central figure in the royal baccarat scandal of 1891. After inheriting a baronetcy he joined the Army and saw service in South Africa, Egypt and the Sudan; he served with distinction and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Something of an adventurer, he also spent time hunting in the US and India. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Gordon-Cumming,_4th_Baronet

William married Florence Josephine Garner on 10 Jun 1891 in Kensington and Chelsea, London. Florence (daughter of William Thorn Garner and Mary Marcellite Thorn) was born on 7 Dec 1869 in New York, USA; died on 21 Sep 1922 in Elgin, Moray, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Sep 1873, All Saints, Dorset
• Residence: 1891, Duffus, Moray, Scotland
• Residence: 1901, Kensington, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Aldenham, Hertfordshire

Beatrix married John Spencer Ward on 2 Oct 1897 in Sidcup, Kent. John (son of John Francis Ward and Charlotte Elizabeth Baker) was born on 18 Aug 1866 in Kensington, London; died on 12 Aug 1940 in Acland Nursing Home, Banbury Rd, Oxford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Archibald married Olivia Douglas Sinclair May on 10 Apr 1926. Olivia was born on 4 Mar 1899 in Aldershot, Hampshire; died on 26 Aug 1964 in Elgin, Moray, Scotland; was buried in Duffus, Moray, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1st daughter of Lt. Dol. Sir William Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 4th Bart., by Florence Josephine, 2nd daughter of William Garner, Commodore of the New York Yacht Club. Baptised at Forres, Co. Elgin.

The marriage was dissolved at her husband's suit 1923. She married secondly 3 April 1924 at Rangoon, Lennox Napier.

Buried in Dominica.

Elma married Captain Maurice Antony Crutchley Gibbs on 10 Jan 1912 in Altyre Church, Nr. Forres, Moray, Scotland, and was divorced in 1923. Maurice (son of The Hon. Henry Lloyd Gibbs and The Hon. Alice Mary Crutchley) was born on 9 Jun 1888 in 10 Lennox Gardens, Chelsea, London; died on 8 Aug 1974 in La Haut, Saint George, Dominica; was buried in Roseau, Saint George, Dominica. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elma married Lennox Pelham Napier on 3 Apr 1924 in Rangoon, Bengal, India. Lennox was born on 8 May 1891 in Singapore; died on 4 Mar 1940 in Calibishie, Saint Andrew, Dominica. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1901, London; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Hastings, Sussex

Notes:

1st daughter of John Spencer Ward of Long Wittenham, Berks., by Beatrix, daughter of Rev Sir Charles Gordon Cumming Dunbar, 8th Baronet of Northfield, Co. Elgin. Educated at 'The Bonhams', St. Leonards, Sussex; Aldburgh, and Oxford University (Home Student in Medicine). Memorial in Chester Cathedral.

Before her marriage she studied medicine at Oxford University as a home student, travelling into lectures on a motorcycle. During this time she was also nursing her mother. After 4 years as a medical student she caught scarlet fever and was unable to take her exam in 1923, and then married before her finals. During the whole of her married life she was a constant support and companion to her husband, assisting in parish work and later on, fully involved in all the commitments that fall to a Dean's wife both in Cape Town and Chester.

The year she died she visited Africa for the last time to see her two daughters and their husbands—Mary and Maurice in Malawi and Bridget and John in Lesotho.

Memorial: Grave stone in the floor, east end of south transept of Chester Cathedral.
Interests: Unfailing interest in people and a great encourager.

A home-maker of unbounded hospitality, the Rectory and Deanery were open to all. In later life she enjoyed sketching.

Birth:
15 Stratford Road

Edith married Rev Michael McCausland Gibbs on 4 Aug 1926 in Long Wittenham, Berkshire. Michael (son of Canon Reginald Gibbs and Lucia McCausland) was born on 1 Sep 1900 in Banbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire; died on 27 Jul 1962 in Chester, Cheshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1901, London; Age: 2; Age: 1901; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Baptism: 7 Feb 1901, Kensington St Philip, Kensington and Chelsea, London

John married Leila Alvina Jenner on 24 Aug 1932 in Moruya, Eden Monaro, New South Wales, Australia. Leila (daughter of Leslie Thomas Jenner and Alvina Jessie Burns) was born in 1911 in Moruya, Eden Monaro, New South Wales, Australia; died on 9 Jul 1990 in Balgowlah, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 24 Jun 1906, Bexley, Kent
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Aldenham, Hertfordshire

Jean married John Whitehead on 22 Apr 1935. John was born on 26 Nov 1908; died on 30 Jun 1988. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Archibald married Amelia Millar Sommerville Davidson [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Dec 1912, Chelsea, London

Notes:

Born 8 November 1912. Baptised 7 December 1912 at the chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea (first baby).

Went to Australia with her parents living first in Melbourne and then in Perth where she attended The Presbyterian Ladies College. She returned to England when she was 12 and finished her education at Heathfield School and also in Paris. In 1932 her mother and stepfather moved to Dominica in the West Indies and she went with them, living there for the rest of her life. She marired Percy Kirwan Agar a farmer and well known painter and ornithologist. She ran the census office in the War. After husband’s death in 1954 she continued to run the estate, started the local radio station, worked for many local charities including the Red Cross and was a founder member and Managing director of the Fort Young Hotel for many years.

The Fort Young Hotel, Dominica, which was destroyed by Hurricane 'David' when it hit Dominica in August 1979, but since rebuilt. She also helped to run the Coulibri Estate dairy farm, and the farm at La Haut, the family estate, that was also totally wrecked in the hurricane; all the buildings on the dairy farm fell down, but only one cow was lost.

Last address: Morne Rouge, Dominica, West Indies, which was one of the few houses not destroyed by the hurricane.

Died 4 January 2011.

Birth:
27 Ormonde Gate

Daphne married Percy Kirwan Agar on 5 Jan 1934 in Roseau, Saint George, Dominica. Percy was born on 28 Sep 1897 in Roseau, Saint George, Dominica; died on 12 Jul 1954 in La Haut, Saint George, Dominica. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Doctor of Medicine

Notes:

1st son. Baptised 28 August 1927 at Aldenham, Herts. Educated at the Diocesan College, Cape Town, 1942-44; Cape Town University Medical School, 1945-47; Keble College (Oxford) 1948-50; St. Mary's Hospital Medical School 1950-52, BA (Oxon 1949), BM, BCh (1952); DM (1962); MRCP (London 1955), FRCP (1973).

1935-40 Ruzawi School, Marandellas, Southern Rhodesia, founded by Maurice Carver (later to be brother-in-law). Scholarship in Anatomy and Physiology, University of Cape Town, 1947; Fulbright Travel Award to USA 1962; Trainee Research Grant of the US Public Health Service, 1962-63; Wellcome Grant for Research in Medical History, 1970. House Physician posts between 1953 and 1958 at St. Mary's Hospital, London;
Hillingdon Hospital, Middlesex.; Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford; Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases; Hammersmith Hospital. Registrar and Senior Registrar, The London Hospital, 1958-62; Fellow in Medicine (Gastroenterology) Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, and Boston City Hospital, Boston, Mass. 1962-63. Senior Medical Registrar, King George Hospital, Ilford 1963-64; Consultant Physician Good Hope District General Hospital, Sutton Coldfield and to the North Birmingham Group of Hospitals 1965-74. Consultant Physician in General Medicine and Gastroenterology to The London Hospital from March 1974. National Service in the Medical Branch of the Royal Air Force, 1955-57 (Squadron Leader).

Author of Exfolialive Cytology of the Stomach, Butterworth, London, 1968, and articles in medical journals. Examiner in Medicine, University of London (1978-79), University of Liverpool (1978), University of Basrah, Iraq (1979), Conjoint Board (1975-79). Adviser on examination reform, Indian Civil Service sponsored by British Council (1980).
Chief Medical Officer to the Provident Life Association of London.

Fellow Royal Society of Medicine; Member Harveian Society of London; British Society of the History of Medicine; British Soc. of Gastroenterology; British Society of Digestive Endoscopy (Hon. Treas. 1973-78).

Interests: Old books, medical history, walking.
Club: Athenaeum.

Portrait: Watercolour by Harry More-Gordon (1979) in own possession

Died suddenly, but painlessly, on 8th January 2015 with Rachel, Nicholas and Sarah at his bedside.

Birth:
40 Norroy Road

Denis married Rachel Elizabeth Youard [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Apr 1929, Salisbury, Rhodesia

Notes:

2nd son. Baptised at Salisbury 7 April 1929. Educated at Diocesan College, Cape Town, Keble College (Oxford) 1947-50, (BA Hons), and London University 1957 (PC. Ed.).

1950-59 Teaching at Diocesan College, Cape Town; Cape Town University, St. Paul's School, London, Cyrene African Secondary School, Rhodesia. 1960-63 First Principal of Ranche House College, Salisbury, Rhodesia. The Hall at Ranche House College is named after him. 1964-73. Teaching in England: King Edward's School, Birmingham, Woodbridge School, Suffolk; Ipswich High School, G.P.D.S.T. 1974-80 First Warden of International Community Centre, Nottingham. Trustee of Budiriro Trust (Scholarships for Rhodesian Africans).

Interests: Painting, printing, writing poetry, gardening.

John married Carol Margaret Williamson [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1st daughter. Educated at Cape Town University (B.Soc. Sc. 1955).

1950-56 Orthopaedic nursing at Oxford. Member Institute of Medical Social Workers (1956). 1957-65 held appointment as Medical Social Worker at Harold Wood Hospital, Essex; Bromsgrove, Worcs.; Cheshire County Hospital; Reading Local Authority; Nuffield Orthopaedic,Oxford.

1966-76 Teaching (Home Economics, English, Librarian) at Malosa Secondary School, a large co-educational boarding school for Malawians, mission-founded and government controlled since Independence, aided by World Bank.

Interests: In Malawi, Home Care Clubs for girls with award scheme financed by donations in memory of her mother Marjorie Gibbs (4). In England: sketching, village lend-a-hand scheme, House Groups.

Mary married Maurice Fraser Carver on 29 Oct 1965 in Marandellas,S.Rhodesia. Maurice (son of Frank Carver, MP and Annie Jane Harriet Creswell) was born on 30 Mar 1899 in Harborne, Staffordshire; died on 28 Sep 1986 in Ledbury, Herefordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Chlorakas, Paphos, Cyprus

Notes:

3rd son. Educated at Diocesan College, Cape Town 1945-52; Keble College, Oxford (BA Hons, Geology) 1953-56; University College London., 1959-60 (Diploma Land Survey), and 1968-69 (M.Sc. Photogrammetry).

1977 Fellow Royal Institute Chartered Surveyors. 1978-9 Member Watt Committee on Energy Working Party. In 1953, aged 18, accompanied by an 18-year old companion, was first known to navigate Orange River from source to mouth. 1956-59 Member of Falkland Islands Dependencies Surveys; Base Leader Stonington Island. Awarded Polar Medal. Surveyed for H.M. Govt. in Zambia (1960-62), in Botswana (1963-65), Ghana (1965-67).
1969-77 with Ordnance Survey. 1977-79 with firm of Commercial Surveyors. 1979 started private survey practice in Edinburgh.

Interests: Walking, skiing, gardening, renewable energy resources. Member Photogrammetric Society, London; Cartographic Society.

Clubs: New (Edinburgh); Achilles; Antarctic (London).

Peter married Judith Ann Orgill [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bridget married Rev. John Walton Beauchamp Perry [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Neville married Shirley Reed Denton [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sylvia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Harold Cunningham. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anthony married Joy Sheila Joy Hardman [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Penelope married Douglas Nigel Weir [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Caroline M. Oliver. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Antony married Madeleine Carmel Morrison [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mark Varvill. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nicholas married Myrtle Elizabeth Cools [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Geoffrey Charles Henny. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Michael married Juliet Ann Pont [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Caroline married Peter Abraham Misch [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dominic married Annabel Fisher [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Caroline Sara Elizabeth Jones. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Simon married Larisa [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Simeon married Debra Jane Dettmar [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ruth married Timothy Peter Pizey, (born Angier) [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Charlie Turner. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guy married Gillian Duff [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

J.A. married B. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: R.L.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucy married Joseph McAndrew [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nicola married Lesley Holden [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Julie O'Brien. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Marianne Suhr. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dr. Howard D Cook. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Samuel Charles Wildy [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jessica married Dr. Michael Magro [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charlie married Holly Jayne Harris [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]