STRACHAN, Margaret ^{1 2}

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Margaret married Reverend Mr John FORBES Minister of Kincardine O'Neil parish (2), son of Patrick FORBES of Blackhall and Margaret BLACKHALL.¹ (Reverend Mr John FORBES Minister of Kincardine O'Neil parish (2) was born in 1643 ¹ and died by 14 May 1708 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (John Forbes) married 'Margaret, daughter of Strachan of Thornton' (Fasti Eccles. Scotic., Vol. III., pt 2, p. 518). On this point a few words are necessary. I have so far failed to find the authority for this fact, but Dr. Scott, a most careful historian in such matters, must have found it, as he corrects the manifest error on this point made by Macfarlane in his genealogical manuscript.

John Strachan, the Tutor of Thornton, and maternal granduncle of John Forbes, predeceased his grand-nephew, Sir Alexander Strachan, the second Baronet of Thornton, who died without male issue in 1659. I am informed, however, by Miss McGilchrist Gilchrist (Letter), who is engaged in a careful investigation of the genealogy of this family, that the Tutor and the Baronet were both survived by the eldest son of the former, who would de jure be 'Strachan of Thornton,' and should, one would have supposed, have been the third Baronet, but who, for some reason or by some arrangement, appears not to have assumed the title. The fine property of the Strachans had, by the time the second Baronet died, practically all left the hands of the main line of the family. According to Rogers (Memorials of the Families of Strachan and Wise, Ed. 1877, p. 51), the third Baronet was Sir James Strachan, the representative of a remote ancestor of the Tutor and of the second Baronet. Legal documents show that Margaret Strachan, the wife of the Revd. John Forbes, could not have been a daughter of Sir James Strachan (Rogers, Op. cit., p. 68).

The Tutor's son, also John Strachan, had four daughters (Elizabeth, Katharine, Isobel and Margaret), and so far as is known, no male issue. The presumption therefore is, that this Margaret was the wife of John Forbes, who must, therefore, have married his second cousin."

from The Blackhalls ¹