DE MEAKLEY, , Madame ²

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DE MEAKLEY married Unnamed FIRST HUSBAND Marquis de Montilly.¹ (Unnamed FIRST HUSBAND Marquis de Montilly was born about 1570.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John (Forbes), the 2d (son), when he came to be about 18 or 20 years of age, raised his patrimony out of the Laird of Tolquhon's hands, which was no more than 2000 merks, and went to France with it, where he became a Captain and exempt in the Guards, then married a French woman, and had by her a son called Malcome, who also became a pretty man; thereafter Captain John being deputy-governor of the castle of Dieppe, under the Marquis of Monthly, after the Marquis his death,- Madame de Montilly married him, and within some time after, married her own daughter to his sone, Malcolme"

from Family of Forbes ¹

DE MEAKLEY next married Captain John FORBES Deputy Governor of Dieppe Castle, son of John FORBES of Bandly and Elizabeth KEITH.¹ (Captain John FORBES Deputy Governor of Dieppe Castle was born about 1570.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John Forbes of Bandley married Elizabeth Keith, daughter to Win. Keith of Tulloch, who bear to him Duncan Forbes, provost of Inverness, and Laird of Collodne, and John Forbes, recent of the guards, who married Madam de Meakley, and Pat. Forbes, called black Pat. Forbes, baillie in Inverurie."

from Family of Forbes (main text)




"John (Forbes), the 2d (son), when he came to be about 18 or 20 years of age, raised his patrimony out of the Laird of Tolquhon's hands, which was no more than 2000 merks, and went to France with it, where he became a Captain and exempt in the Guards, then married a French woman, and had by her a son called Malcome, who also became a pretty man; thereafter Captain John being deputy-governor of the castle of Dieppe, under the Marquis of Monthly, after the Marquis his death,- Madame de Montilly married him, and within some time after, married her own daughter to his sone, Malcolme, by whom he got a good portion, but got a far richer within some time, for her only sone, young Montilly, dying without succession, Malcolme, in right of his wife, fell into the estate of Montilly, which his grandchild does inherit with the title of Marquiss : some 50 years ago (ie in mid-17th century), he sent to Scotland for his coat-armorial certificate, which was given him, utterly wrong, by the then Lord Lyon and his deputy and clerks."

from Family of Forbes (Personal account of Duncan Forbes of Culloden) ^{1 2}