FORBES, Patrick of Bithnie ^{1 2}

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Patrick married Elizabeth FORBES heiress of Cults, daughter of Duncan FORBES of Cults and Margaret FORBES.^{1 2} (Elizabeth FORBES heiress of Cults was born about 1543.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Duncan Forbes of Cults married Margaret Forbes, daughter to the Laird of Towie, who did bear to him Elspet Forbes, qch Elspet succeeded to the half lands of Cults, and she married Patrick Forbes, son to Pat. Forbes of Corss, of whose suecessione wee have spoken of alreadie in the genealogie of the houss of Corss..."

from Family of Forbes




"This Duncan was styled 'Baron of Cults' as above. He married Margaret, daughter of Forbes of Towie, and had a daughter Elizabeth, who married Patrick Forbes of Bithnie (Lumsden's Family of Forbes)."

from Records of Aboyne ^{1 2}

Patrick next married Second WIFE.¹ (Second WIFE was born about 1565.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Patrick Forbes of Bithnie, second son to Pat. Forbes of Corss, married Elizabeth Forbes, daughter to Duncan Forbes of Coults, heretrix yrof, who did bear to him Duncan Forbes of Bithnie, and Capt. John Forbes of Newhaven, in France ; also he had diverss daughters; the eldest married to Thomas Elphinston ; and oyr. married on Alaster Farqrson, and by a second marriage he had Mr. Wm. Forbes of Tilliegreg, parson of Mortloch."

from Family of Forbes ¹