AIKMAN, Margaret 1 2 3
User ID: R337 General Notes: "AIKMAN Margaret married Hugh FORBES Advocate, Principal Clerk of Session, son of Lieutenant-Colonel John FORBES of Pittencrieff and Elizabeth GRAHAM. (Hugh FORBES Advocate, Principal Clerk of Session was baptised on 22 July 1704 in Dunfermline parish, Fife, Scotland 4.) Marriage Notes: "John, sixth son of John Forbes, 2nd of Culloden, bought the estate of Pittencrieff, near Dunfermline, in 1701 .... He married Elizabeth, daughter of Baillie Graham of Edinburgh, and had three sons: (1) Arthur, his heir. (2) Hugh, one of the Principal Clerks of Session. He married Margaret, daughter of William Aikman, painter in Edinburgh, and had a son and four daughters, whence the family of Forbes-Aikman of the Ross. (3) John, General in the Army. He took Fort du Quesne from the French." |