FORBES, Alexander of Ardo, then of Foveran, Mr ^{2 3 4 5}

   Another name for Alexander was FORBES, Alexr..⁴

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Alexander married Anna SKENE, daughter of Thomas SKENE in Potterton, then of Overhill and Overtown, and in Milnden and Sarah LEASK, on 8 September 1639 in Belhelvie parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.^{1 2} (Anna SKENE was born about 1622 and died by 14 October 1652 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"SKEINE
ANNAS
ALEXANDER FORBES/
08/09/1639
174 10 / 150
Belhelvie"

from Index of Marriages




" 6. Anna Skene, married in 1639 to Alexander Forbes in Foveran, Thomas Skene, in Milnden, her father."

from Skene of Skene ^{1 2}

Alexander next married Margaret HUNTER on 14 October 1652 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.^{2 3} (Margaret HUNTER was baptised on 17 December 1633 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ⁴ and died on 25 March 1666 ⁶.). The cause of her death was aftermath of childbirth.

  Marriage Notes:

"FORBES
ALEXANDER
MARGARET HUNTER/FR924 (FR924)
14/10/1652
685/1 440 14
Edinburgh"

from Index of Marriages




"Mr. Alexander Forbes of Ardo Married Hunter daughter to Samuel Hunter Apothecary in Edinburgh, who bear to him Samuel John and 3 Daughters, One married to Doctor Chalmers in Aberdeen One Lady Glack Elphinston & One Lady Glenkinday. After his first Ladys death he married Twice but had no Children. But by them he purchased the Lands of Foverane."

from MacFarlane's Genealogical Collections

Note:

It should be noted that both the above source and the House of Forbes contradict the Memorials of the Family of Skene of Skene - and the parish register - which state that Anna Skene married Alexander Forbes of Foveran in 1639, that is before his marriage to Margaret Hunter.

The House of Forbes article states - quoting as its source Rowe's Diary -

"Alexander Forbes married, secondly, the widow of Baillie Skene, and thirdly, on June 11th, 1667, Katherine Gordon, widow of Keith of Clackriach, who after his death married Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill"

This cannot be the case. Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, nicknamed 'Poles', the son of Alexander Burnet and Agnes Moir, was baptised in 1659. He married Elizabeth Gordon, and children, one of whom, Thomas, was baptised in 1709.

There was a Catherine Gordon, of the Gight family, who married John Keith, apparent of Clackriath, around the 1560s.

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