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FORBES, John of Balfluig
(About 1525-)
FORBES, Janet
(About 1523-)
COUTTS, Robert of Auchtercoul
(About 1527-)
FORBES, Issobell
(About 1533-)
FORBES, William 2nd of Balfluig
(About 1545-)
COUTTS, Margaret
(About 1559-)
FORBES, James of Cloak
(About 1588-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. CALDER, Daughter

2. STRACHAN, Isabel

FORBES, James of Cloak 1 3

  • Born: About 1588
  • Marriage (1): CALDER, Daughter 1
  • Marriage (2): STRACHAN, Isabel 1 2

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  Research Notes:

CLOAK

This is Glenmillan, in the parish of Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire.


James married Daughter CALDER, daughter of John CALDER of Migvie and Unknown.1 (Daughter CALDER was born about 1605.)


  Marriage Notes:

"... his (William Forbes of Balfluig's) fourth son was James Forbes, called James of Cloak, which James married Strauchen, daughter to the parson of Kincardine, who did bear to him Thomas Forbes, and diverss other bairns, who bear witnes ymselves: also, by his first wife, Asloune Caddel's daughter, he had Mr. Rot. Forbes, minister at Colstein, with diverss daughters."

from Family of Forbes 1

James next married Isabel STRACHAN, daughter of Reverend Mr John STRACHAN minister of Kincardine O'Neil parish, Tutor of Thornton and Isabel SYMMER 'of Bratherisch".1 2 (Isabel STRACHAN was born about 1605.)


  Marriage Notes:

"... his (William Forbes of Balfluig's) fourth son was James Forbes, called James of Cloak, which James married Strauchen, daughter to the parson of Kincardine, who did bear to him Thomas Forbes, and diverss other bairns, who bear witnes ymselves: also, by his first wife, Asloune Caddel's daughter, he had Mr. Rot. Forbes, minister at Colstein, with diverss daughters."

from Family of Forbes 1

Sources


1 e-books, Genealogy of the Family of Forbes from the account of Mathew Lumsden 1580 ed. William Forbes (1819).

2 e-books, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae vol. 6 Aberdeen & Moray by Hew Scott.

3 e-books, House of Forbes by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (1937 and 1987) found at https://www.clan-forbes.org/house-of-forbes Chapter XX11 Family of Balfluig.

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