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FORBES, Alexander 5th of Pitsligo, 'the Red Laird'
(About 1502-1562)
ABERNETHY, Beatrix
(About 1502-)
LESLIE, Alexander 4th of Pitcaple
(About 1510-Before 1588)
GORDON, Margaret 'of Achanachie'
(About 1517-)
FORBES, Arthur of Meikle Wardes and Newton
(About 1533-)
LESLIE, Margaret
(About 1558-)
FORBES, Marjorie
(About 1587-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. LEITH, John of Bucharn and of New Leslie

FORBES, Marjorie 1 2

  • Born: About 1587
  • Marriage (1): LEITH, John of Bucharn and of New Leslie 1 2

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Marjorie married John LEITH of Bucharn and of New Leslie, son of Laurence LEITH of Kirktown of Rayne and Bessie GORDON.1 2 (John LEITH of Bucharn and of New Leslie was born about 1588.)


  Marriage Notes:

"John Leith of Bucharne and New Leslie, who sold Kirktown of Rayne, and bought the lands, afterwards called Leith-hall, at that time New Leslie, Peill, Syde, Arnbog, &c. His wife, daughter of Arthur Forbes, and grand-daughter of Alexander Forbes, 6th Lord Pitsligo, bare him two sons, James, his heir ; and Alexander, progenitor of the Leiths of Bucharne, Leiths of Blair, and Leiths of Whiteriggs in the Mearns."

from Inverurie




"Mr. Arthur Forbes, third brother to Alex, of Pitsligo, married Margaret Leslie, daughter to the Laird of Pitcaple, who did bear to him .... Marjorie married on John Leith of Busbarnie"

from Family of Forbes 1 2

Sources


1 e-books, Inverurie and the Earldom of the Garioch by John Davidson (1878).

2 e-books, Genealogy of the Family of Forbes from the account of Mathew Lumsden 1580 ed. William Forbes (1819).

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