DUFF, Anne ^{2 3}

   Another name for Anne was DUFF, Anne of Muirton.

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Anne married Major John FORBES 9th (and last) of Newe, son of Captain John FORBES 8th of Newe and Anne GRANT, in 1764.¹ (Major John FORBES 9th (and last) of Newe was born about 1735 and died on 1 February 1792 in King's Bench prison, Southwark, London, England ^{3 4}.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Anne, born 1739; married, in 1764, Major John Forbes (29th Regiment of Foot) of Newe. She died in England in 1780, leaving an only daughter Mary who married, in 1788, Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk, and died in 1852."

from Book of the Duffs (vol 2)




"Captain John Forbes died in 1775 and was buried at Kirkhill, Inverness-shire. His only son was a Major in the 29th Regiment, and married Anne Duff of Muirtown. He became a bankrupt and died in the King's Bench prison in 1792, where he had been, it is said, for nine years, having parted with the estate of Newe to James Forbes of Seaton, who resold it to Bombay Jock, brother of the Rev. George of Leochel. Major Forbes' only child was Mary who in 1788 married Sir Arthur Grant of Monymusk, and some of the family portraits and other treasures went with her to her new home."

from House of Forbes ^{1 3}