Gibbs Family Tree
Eliza Maria Campbell
1794 - 1842 (48 years)
Generation: 1
1. Eliza Maria Campbell was born in 1794 in Rafford, Moray, Scotland; died on 21 Apr 1842 in Altyre, Rafford, Moray, Scotland. Notes:
Lady Eliza Maria Gordon-Cumming (1795- 21 April 1842) was a Scottish aristocrat, horticulturalist, palaeontologist and scientific illustrator. Lady Cumming collected and studied Devonian fish fossils from the Old Red Sandstone of Morayshire, Scotland. She amassed a large and well-known collection which she illustrated, along with her daughter Lady Anne Seymour. Lady Cumming worked with other palaeontologists and geologists of the time including Louis Agassiz, William Buckland and Roderick Murchison. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Maria_Gordon-Cumming
Eliza married William Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet of Altyre on 11 Sep 1815 in Zurich, Switzerland. William (son of Alexander Penrose Cumming Gordon, 1st Bart and Helen Grant) was born on 20 Jul 1787; died on 23 Nov 1854 in Altyre, Rafford, Moray, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Sir Baronet Alexander Penrose Gordon-Cumming was born on 17 Aug 1816 in Altyre, Rafford, Moray, Scotland; died on 2 Sep 1866 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.