FORBES, Arthur of Pittencrieff, in Dutch Service, Colonel ¹

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  General Notes:

"FORBES
ARTHUR
JOHN FORBES/ELISABETH GRAME FR1044 (FR1044)
M
06/01/1703
424/ 30 675
Dunfermline"

"FORBES
ARTHUR
JOHN FORBES/ELIZABETH GRAHAME FR976 (FR976)
M
07/01/1703
424/ 30 545
Dunfermline"

from Births and Baptisms




"Arthur (Forbes), the eldest, laird of Pittencrieff and a colonel in the Dutch service, was a man of infinite humour, which consisted much in his instantaneous and lively invention of fictions and tales to illustrate or ridicule the conversation that was going on; and as his tales were inoffensive, though totally void of truth, they afforded great amusement to every company. The third brother, John, was the gentleman who retrieved our affairs in North America, after Braddock's defeat. He was an accomplished, agreeable gentleman, but there appeared to me to be more effort and less naivete in his conversation than in that of Hew, whose humour was genuine and natural."

from The Autobiography of Dr. Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk ^{1 2}

Arthur married Agnes GRAHAME, daughter of Admiral James GRAHAM 1st of Airth and Marion HAMILTON, on 14 January 1726 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. (Agnes GRAHAME was born on 18 April 1704 ³ and was baptised on 28 April 1704 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GRAHAME
AGNES
ARTHUR FORBES/FR1574 (FR1574)
14/01/1726
685 / 1
460 / 330
Edinburgh"

from Index of Marriages


Old Parish Registers
Edinburgh parish Edinburgh
Marriages

"Edinburgh Sabath 2 January 1726

Arthur Forbes of Pittencrief & M^rs Agnes Grahame Daughter to M^r James Grahame of Airth in NW parish 14"




"Arthur Forbes, his second son, became a Colonel in the Dutch Service. He married his cousin, Agnes, daughter of James Graham of Airth. In 1750 he bought an estate adjoining Pittencrieff called the Towrer Hill, but he sold the whole in 1763 to Captain Alex. Grant, and died at Springfield, near Leith, in 1770."

from House of Forbes ⁴