FORBES, John 7th of Echt ¹

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John married Helen STRACHAN, daughter of Sir John STRACHAN of Thornton and Margaret LIVINGSTON, about 1569(1570)(charter confirmation).¹ (Helen STRACHAN was born about 1550.)

  Marriage Notes:

" .... and on the 30th December 1569, confirmation was granted to a charter by John Forbes, lord of the fee of the lordship of Aicht (Echt), with consent of Robert Forbes, his grandfather, and others, his curators, in favour of Helen, daughter of John Strachan of Thornton, in liferent, of the lands of Cowlie in the barony of Aicht (Privy Seal Register, vol. xxxviii., fol. 112)."

from Memorials of Strachan and Wise (1877) ¹