FORBES, John of Keithack 1
- Born: About 1610
- Marriage (1): GORDON, Jane 1
User ID: G31.
Research Notes:
KEITHACK
"Upper Keithack NJ348379 OS Explorer sheet 425,426
Keithack [=Upper Keithack] approx. 3:3:0W 57:25:0N Thomson's Atlas (1832)
Keithock near: NJ330365 1881 Census ED 6
Kethock near: NJ336364 1841 Census ED 7
Lower Keithack NJ351384 OS Explorer sheet 425,426
Upper Kethock NJ348379 1841 Census ED 7"
from Banffshire Place Names
"CHAPEL KEITHACK. AKA and see Chapel Keithing. Scottish, Slow Air (3/4). B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1883), of Fochabers, Morayshire. The Gaelic 'keithack' translates as wood, so the title presumably means 'chapel in the wood' or 'wooden chapel'. Neil (1991) states that the structure of the title was thought to have been sited somewhere along the hilly road which links Dufftown and Huntly, and finds that a place of the same name existed there in 1636, situated near the modern village of Mortlach. Alburger (1983) relates that one Father George Gordon was a priest at Keithack ('near Dufftown') who was a fine musician and in a position to circulate Marshall's music to a wider public. 'It has been suggested he furnished bass lines for Marshall's second collection; perhaps Marshall's outstanding slow air Chapel Keithack...was a musical offering in return for the Father's help' (Alburger, 1983). Cowie (The Life and Times of William Marshall, 1999) points out that Catholics needed to maintain a low profile after the defeat of the Highland army at Culloden, and that the chapel where Father Gordon held his services 'would in all probability the upper part of his home where a simple altar would have been erected.' "
from Fiddler's Companion 2 3
John married Jane GORDON, daughter of James GORDON 'James O'Laggan' and Unknown.1 (Jane GORDON was born about 1625.)
Marriage Notes:
"The daughter (Jane Gordon) married John Forbes of Keithack, son to Gordon Arthur Forbes, and left several children."
from Gordons of Laggan and Achlochrach 1
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