'Forbes03'
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Families covered: Forbes of Forbes
| William Forbes, 7th Lord (d 1593) | |||||||||||||||
| m. (19.12.1538) Elizabeth Keith (dau of Sir William Keith of Inverugie) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | John Forbes, 8th Lord (b 03.07.1542, d 29.06.1606, 2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (11.1558, div 24.06.1573) Margaret Gordon (d 01.01.1606, dau of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | John Forbes, 9th Lord (b c1570, d unm 11.08.1606, monk, 2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
| B. | Jean Forbes | ||||||||||||||
| m. (mcrt 12.05.1597) William Cumyn of Earnside | |||||||||||||||
| C. | Margaret Forbes | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (mcrt 23.04.1600) George Sinclair of Dunbeath (d 1624) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (before 1628) Claud Hamilton | |||||||||||||||
| D.+ | other issue - William (b 1562, dvp 21.03.1592, monk), Isobel (d young) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. (before 17.03.1579/80) Jonet Seton (d 02.02.1616, dau of Walter Seton of Touch) | |||||||||||||||
| F. | Arthur Forbes, 10th Lord (b 25.04.1581) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (05.02.1600) Jean Elphinstone (b 17.02.1582, a 1628, dau of Alexander Elphinstone, 4th Lord) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Alexander Forbes, 11th Lord (d 20.04.1672) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Anne Forbes (dau of John Forbes, 9th of Pitsligo) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | William Forbes, 12th Lord (d 1697) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (1643/8) Jean Campbell (d 10.12.1660/6, dau of Sir John Campbell of Calder) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | William Forbes, 13th Lord (d 07.1716) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1680) Anne Brodie (dau of James Brodie of Brodie) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | William Forbes, 14th Lord (d 26.06.1730) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (mcrt 03.09.1720) Dorothy Dale (dau of William Dale of Covent Garden) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Francis Forbes, 15th Lord (b 19.12.1721, bur 08.08.1734) | ||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Jean Forbes (d 27.07.1774) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (22.04.1748) James Dundas, 24th of Dundas (b 1721, d 1780) | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Elizabeth Forbes (b 05.01.1730, d 03.10.1761) duplicated below? | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1752) John Gregory in Edinburgh | |||||||||||||||
| (iv)+ | other issue - Anne (bpt 10.06.1674, d 06.1674), Mary (bpt 03.11.1675, bur 09.11.1734) | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | James Forbes, 16th Lord (b 1689, d 20.02.1761) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (1715) Mary Forbes (dau of Alexander Forbes, 3rd Lord of Pitsligo) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Sophia Forbes (b c1715, d 13.03.1790) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Charles Cumine of Kinninmont | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Mary Forbes (d 21.06.1793) | ||||||||||||||
| m. James Gordon of Cobairdy | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Mary Elizabeth Gordon | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1774) Alexander Leith of Freefield and Glenkindie (d 1828) | |||||||||||||||
| (iii) | Anne Forbes (b c1724, d 30.10.1750) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (20.11.1746) Thomas Erskine of Pittodrie | |||||||||||||||
| (iv) | James Forbes, 17th Lord (b c1725, d 29.07.1804) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (01.1760) Catherine Innes (d 16.04.1805, dau of Sir Robert Innes, Bart of Orton and Balveny) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | James Onchocar Forbes, 18th Lord (b 07.03.1765, d 04.05.1843, General) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (02.06.1792) Elizabeth Hunter (b 09.05.1775, d 11.10.1830, dau of Walter Hunter of Polmood and Crailing) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Walter Forbes, 19th Lord (b 29.05.1798, d 02.05.1868, 2nd son) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (31.01.1825) Horatia Shaw (b 19.05.1799, d 24.12.1862, dau of Sir John Gregory Shaw, 5th Bart of Eltham (Kenward) by Theodocia Margaret Monson) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (04.04.1864) Louisa Ormond (d 26.01.1921, dau of James Ormond of Abingdon) | |||||||||||||||
| ((2)) | Robert Forbes (b 01.06.1808, d 02.06.1883, 6th son) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (26.03.1828) Frances Dorothy Hodges (d 03.06.1895, dau of Thomas Law Hodges) | |||||||||||||||
| ((3)) | Caroline Elizabeth Forbes (d 14.04.1865) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (16.11.1818) George Fairholme of Greenknow (d 19.11.1846) | |||||||||||||||
| ((4)) | Charlotte Elizabeth Forbes (b c1801, d 05.11.1883) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (15.09.1825) Sir John Forbes, 6th Bart of Craigievar (d 16.02.1846) | |||||||||||||||
| ((5)) | Mary Stuart Forbes (d 02.02.1897) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (28.08.1839) Charles Benjamin Lee Mainwaring of The Abbey, Knaresborough (d 10.01.1874) | |||||||||||||||
| ((6)) | Isabella Drummond Forbes (d 09.01.1897) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (28.08.1839) Baron Ernest de Poelnitz | |||||||||||||||
| ((7))+ | other issue - James (b 09.04.1796, dvp 25.02.1835, Lt. Col.), Frederick (b 05.04.1803, d 23.04.1826), William (d 10.03.1805), John (b 28.12.1806, d 05.11.1835), Elizabeth Jane (d unm 20.12.1891) | ||||||||||||||
| (b) | Marjory Forbes (d 04.10.1842) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (04.06.1786) John Mackenzie of Cromarty, Lord MacLeod, Count Cromarty (b 1727, dsp 02.4.1789) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (11.03.1794) John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl (b 30.06.1755, d 29.09.1830) | |||||||||||||||
| (c) | Mary Elizabeth Forbes (d 02.11.1803) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (09.07.1785) Sir John Hay, 5th Bart of Haystoun and Smithfield (b 15.01.1755, d 23.05.1830) | |||||||||||||||
| (d)+ | other issue (d unm) - Robert Alaster Cam (d 07.10.1795), Andrew (d 12.06.1808), William (d 01.02.1792) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. (07.1741) Elizabeth Gordon (b c1721, d 12.06.1792, dau of Sir James Gordon, Bart of Park) | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | Archibald Forbes (b 03.11.1697) | ||||||||||||||
| (D) | Mary Forbes | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Ogilvie of Balbegno (d 08.1743) | |||||||||||||||
| Identified in BP1934 (Alison) was ... | |||||||||||||||
| (E) | Elizabeth Forbes duplicated above? | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Gregory (professor in Medicine in Edinburgh) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Dorothea Montague Gregory | ||||||||||||||
| m. (19.06.1782) Archibald Alison (b 13.11.1757, d 17.05.1839, prebendary of Sarum, son of Archibald of New Hall (b 14.06.1730, d 18.02.1794) by Margaret Harte of Lysterick (m. 18.06.1754, d 17.07.1811)) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | William Pulteney Alison (dsp 09.1859, professor in Medicine in Edinburgh) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (11.08.1832) Margaret Gregory (dau of Dr. James Gregory of Edinburgh) | |||||||||||||||
| (b) | Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Bart (b 29.12.1792, d 23.05.1867) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (21.03.1825) Elizabeth Glencairn Tytler (d 05.10.1874, dau of Lt. Col. Patrick Tytler by Isabella Erskine) | |||||||||||||||
| (c) | Henrietta Laura Alison | ||||||||||||||
| m. (23.12.1822) William Pinkerton (Captain) | |||||||||||||||
| (d) | Dorothea Montague Alison | ||||||||||||||
| m. (06.05.1810) Lt. Col. John Gerard of Rochsoles | |||||||||||||||
| (e) | Elizabeth Alison (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| (f) | Margaret Ann Forbes Alison | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Burge (QC, attorney general in Jamaica) | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Arthur Forbes of Breda (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| (3) | Archibald Forbes of Putachie (bur 29.11.1723) | ||||||||||||||
| m. ?? (bur 18.05.1752) | |||||||||||||||
| (4) | Margaret Forbes (d 04.1677) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (c1668) Alexander Sutherland, 1st Lord of Duffus (d 31.08.1674) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (23.02.1676) Sir Robert Gordon, Bart of Gordonstoun (b 07.03.1647, d 05.09.1704) | |||||||||||||||
| (5) | Elizabeth Forbes | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Leith of Whitehaugh | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Anne Leith | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1706) William Forbes of Tolquhoun (b 1685-6, d 05.04.1728) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Anne Erskine (dau of Alexander Erskine, Viscount Fentoun) | |||||||||||||||
| m3. (c12.1682) Barbara Forbes (dau of Forbes of Asloune) | |||||||||||||||
| b.+ | several children (d young) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Elizabeth Forbes (dau of Robert Forbes of Rires) | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Christian Forbes | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Forbes of Balfluig | |||||||||||||||
| d. | Mary Forbes | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (mcrt 30.01.1679) Hugh Rose of Kilravock (d 1687) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Alexander Kinnaird of Culbin | |||||||||||||||
| e.+ | other issue - James (Colonel), Arthur (Colonel), Anne (d unm), others (d young) | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | Barbara Forbes (b 17.01.1607, a 1666) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (mcrt 22/23.01.1628) George Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Seaforth (d 08.1651) | |||||||||||||||
| iii. | Anna Forbes (b 01.03.1610) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (after 04.11.1635) Arthur Forbes of Echt (d 1680) | |||||||||||||||
| iv. | Elizabeth Forbes (b 08.03.1611) | ||||||||||||||
| m. James Skene of Skene (d 1656) | |||||||||||||||
| v.+ | other issue - John (b 02.11.1603, d young), John (b 02.11.1608, a 12.1635, Colonel), William (b 02.02.1614, d 16.05.1654, Colonel), Arthur (b 29.08.1615, Captain), James (b 25.05.1617, Captain) | ||||||||||||||
| G. | David Forbes (b 03.05.1591, d young) | ||||||||||||||
| H. | Catherine Forbes (b 1583) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (mcrt 31.07.1606) William Gordon of Rothiemay (d 01.01.1630) | |||||||||||||||
| The following has been pulled together from cross-references. It is possible that a generation has been missed out. | |||||||||||||||
| i. | John Gordon of Rothiemay | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Barclay, heiress of Towie (dau of Patrick Barclay of Towie) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Jean Gordon | ||||||||||||||
| m. (10.01.1706) Sir George Innes, 2nd Bart of Coxton (d c12.1715) | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Margaret Gordon (d 02.11.1662) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (07.1643) James Gordon (b 17.05.1617, d 26.09.1686, minister of Rothiemay, historian, etc) | |||||||||||||||
| partner(s) unknown | |||||||||||||||
| I.+ | other issue - James, Arthur | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | William Forbes of Fodderbirse and Logy Fintray (b 02.03.1543-4, a 1578) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Marjory Forbes (dau of Alexander Forbes, 6th of Tolquhoun) | |||||||||||||||
| A.+ | issue | ||||||||||||||
| m2. ?? | |||||||||||||||
| B. | James Forbes | ||||||||||||||
| m. dau of William Forbes of Corsindae | |||||||||||||||
| 3. | James Forbes of Lethinty (b 16.07.1551, 5th son) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (before 29.04.1574) Margaret Forbes (dau of Sir William Forbes, 7th of Pitsligo) | |||||||||||||||
| 4. | Jean Forbes (b 25.04.1541) | ||||||||||||||
| m. James Ogilvy, 5th Lord of Airlie (b c1541, d 1606) | |||||||||||||||
| 5. | Elizabeth Forbes (b 10.11.1545) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Henry Sinclair, 5th Lord (b 1527, d 21.10.1601) | |||||||||||||||
| 6. | Christian Forbes (b 24.06.1547, d 1622) | ||||||||||||||
| m. George Johnston of Caskieben (d 1593) | |||||||||||||||
| 7. | Isabel Forbes (b 16.10.1548, bur 22.03.1622) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1567) Sir John Gordon, 3rd of Pitlurg (d 16.09.1600) | |||||||||||||||
| 8. | Catherine Forbes (b 07.07.1554) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir George Barclay of Gartly | |||||||||||||||
| 9. | Margaret Forbes (b 14.10.1557) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (before 1583) George Sinclair of Mey (d 1616) | |||||||||||||||
| 10. | Barbara Forbes (b 31.01.1560-1) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (mcrt 04/05.06.1586) Robert Allardyce, younger of Allardyce (b c1561, dvp 26.12.1587) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Alexander Hay of Dalgetty (d c1638) | |||||||||||||||
| m3. Sir Archibald Douglas of Kilmour (d 1649) | |||||||||||||||
| 11. | Anna Forbes (b 30.09.1564) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (mcrt 10/12.08.1588) Sir John Seton of Barns | |||||||||||||||
| m2. John Hamilton (brother of Samuelston) | |||||||||||||||
| 12.+ | other issue - Alexander (b 25.11.1539, d young), Arthur of Logie (b 03.04.1550, d 1574), Alexander (b 24.01.1552-3, d young), Robert (b 01.01.1555-6, Prior of Monymusk), Abraham of Blacktoun (b 02.03.1558-9) | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): TSP (Forbes), BP1934 (Forbes)
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