ALEXANDER, Jean 1Another name for Jean was ALEXANDER, Margaret.2 User ID: E667. Jean married Alexander FORBES 2nd of Inverernan, son of John FORBES of Inverernan, bailie for Earl of Mar, 'Black Jock', Jacobite 1715 and Margaret ALEXANDER, by 1733.1 2 (Alexander FORBES 2nd of Inverernan was baptised in 1710 in Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 3.) Marriage Notes: "Black Jock was the eldest son of Skellater by a second marriage ; and being out in the rebellion, was taken prisoner, and died at Carlisle the night before the day on which he was to have been executed. His son .... succeeded to Inverernan, and married Jean, daughter of Alexander Alexander of Auchmull, a bailie in Aberdeen. Their eldest son, who died unmarried, made the entail of Inverernan, and was succeeded by his next brother, Alex. Forbes" |
1 e-books, Epitaphs and Inscriptions vol. 1 by Andrew Jervise (1875).
2 e-books, House of Forbes by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (1937 and 1987) found at https://www.clan-forbes.org/house-of-forbes Chapter XXXV Inverernan.
3 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.
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