FORBES, James 15th Lord Forbes ¹

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  Research Notes:

15th or 16th LORD FORBES

In some presentations of this family, the Capuchin monk, John Forbes, the son of John Forbes and Lady Margaret Gordon, is not counted as the 9th Lord Forbes. This has the effect of putting all the following Lord Forbes one place out in their designation.

James married Mary FORBES, daughter of Alexander FORBES 3rd Lord Pitsligo and Sophia ERSKINE, in 1715.¹ (Mary FORBES was born about 1690.)

  Marriage Notes:

"James, sixteenth Lord Forbes, second son of William, twelfth Lord Forbes, born 1689, succeeded his nephew 1734. He died at Putachie, now Castle Forbes, 20 February 1761, in the seventy-third year of his age, and was buried at the church of Keig. He married, first, 1715, Mary, daughter of Alexander, third Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, widow of John Forbes, younger of Monymusk, by whom he had one son and three daughters"

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) ¹

James next married Elizabeth GORDON, daughter of Sir James GORDON 4th of Park, 2nd Baronet, Jacobite 1715 and Margaret ELPHINSTONE, in July 1741.¹ (Elizabeth GORDON was born about 1721 and died on 12 June 1792 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Lord Forbes married, secondly, in July 1741, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Gordon of Park, Bart., by Margaret, daughter of Lord Elphinstone. She died, without issue, at Aberdeen, 12 June 1792, in her seventy-second year."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) ¹