Old Photograph Blackhills House Scotland

Old photograph of Blackhills house in Elgin, Moray, Scotland. Lachlan Cuming, a successful planter in Demerara, returned to Blackhills House, Elgin, in 1820. Lachlan, born 1756, died 1836, was the son of Patrick Cuming of Ardcannie. He was a cousin of Thomas Cuming, their fathers being half-brothers. Lachlan married in Demerara in 1794, to Margaretha Clara Heyliger, born 1769, died 1829, daughter, by her first husband, of Catharina Gertrude Lossner, who had later married, as her second husband, Thomas Cuming. Margaretha died in Brussels on 5 November 1829. In 1798 Lachlan bought, for £7353, the estate of Blackhills near Elgin, part of the larger Innes estate, which was acquired by Thomas Cuming at about the same. He returned from Demerara in 1820 to live at Blackhills, until his death in 1836. With him was the slave Welcome, who became his house servant.



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