FORBES, Elizabeth 'lady of Thornton'
- Born: 1637
- Marriage (1): STRACHAN, James 3rd Baronet of Thornton & Minister of Keith, Sir on 24 January 1654 in Ellon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1
- Died: 10 January 1661
- Buried: 1661, Marykirk parish, Kincardineshire, Scotland
General Notes:
"Elizabeth Forbes of Waterton, wife of Sir James Strachan of Thornton, to whose memory there was an elaborate memorial in the Thornton aisle in the Marykirk parish church died in childbirth in her 25th year in 1661.
'A funeral song to the memory of a most excellent woman. Dame Elizabeth Forbes, lady of Thornton, who, possessed of all the merits that can adorn her sex, became a candidate for eternity 10th January 1661, in the 25th year of her age, having died prematurely in childbed. Altho' her worth is preserved by monuments more lasting than any brass, her sorrowing husband, Sir James Strachan of Thornton, knight baronet, has caused this magnificent tomb to be erected to her most fragrant memory.
Stop, traveller, you have before you a monument of the deepest grief; you see the tomb of a virtuous and accomplished lady - one who, lately a light to her country, now flits an unsubstantial shade. If the golden dawn showed so bright a light, with what splendour would the noontide have shone ? How great was her piety, how befitting her illustrious race was her inspired intellect, how thorn- less her rosy bosom, how great the graceful dignity of her look! A Phcenix, she both lived and died, such as not ten ages could reproduce. But she died ripe for Heaven :- What more was needed ? The slothful reckon ages, good men deeds. Death itself shall not part us.' "
from Epitaphs & inscriptions
"Dame Elizabeth Forbesspouse to Sir James Straquhane of Thorntoun [Strachan of Thornton], par. of Aberluthnot 13 Aug 1662"
from Testaments of Marykirk people 2 3
Elizabeth married Sir James STRACHAN 3rd Baronet of Thornton & Minister of Keith, son of Sir James STRACHAN of Inchtuthill and Mary RAMSAY, on 24 January 1654 in Ellon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.1 (Sir James STRACHAN 3rd Baronet of Thornton & Minister of Keith was born about 1634 in Inchtuthill, Perthshire, Scotland 4 and died in 1715 in Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland 5.)
Marriage Notes:
"1654. 5th January. Contract of Marriage between James Strachan of Inchestuthell, and Elizabeth Forbes, with consent of her mother, Jean Ramsay, by which he settles the life-rent of his lands on her, after the death of his mother, Margaret Ramsay, in consideration of a portion of 8000 marks : it is signed by Alexander Ramsay, and David Ramsay, as curators."
from Memoranda Relating to the Family of Forbes of Watertown
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