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CHALMERS, John in (or of) Balnacraig
(About 1610-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. FORBES, Daughter

CHALMERS, John in (or of) Balnacraig 1 2

  • Born: About 1610
  • Marriage (1): FORBES, Daughter 1

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John married Daughter FORBES, daughter of William FORBES 2nd of Pitellachie and Margaret SKENE.1 (Daughter FORBES was born about 1615.)


  Marriage Notes:

"William (Forbes), married before 1600 : Margaret, daughter of James Skene of Skene, and had two sons and a daughter .... The daughter rnarried John Chalmers of Balnacraig."

from House of Forbes 1

Sources

1 e-books, House of Forbes by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (1937 and 1987) found at https://www.clan-forbes.org/house-of-forbes chapter XXIX Cadets of Newe Pittallachie.

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

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