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KENNEDY, Elizabeth
(About 1645-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. FORBES, George of Corse

KENNEDY, Elizabeth 2

  • Born: About 1645
  • Marriage (1): FORBES, George of Corse 1

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Elizabeth married George FORBES of Corse, son of Dr John FORBES of Corse, Professor of Divinity King's College Aberdeen and Soete ROESBOOM.1 (George FORBES of Corse was born about 1640.)


  Marriage Notes:

"George Forbes of Corss married Kenidie, daughter to the Laird of Kermucks, qose bairns bear witnes themselves."

from Family of Forbes




"By his wife Soete Roesboom, a native of Holland, he (John Forbes) had nine children. He was survived by only one of them, a son, who, in the words of Dr Garden in his copious Life of Forbes .... was the heir of his father's property but not of his learning and virtues."

from Funeral Sermons 1 3

Sources


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

2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

3 e-books, The Funeral Sermons, Orations, Epitaphs, and Other Pieces on the Death of the Right Rev. Patrick Forbes Bishop of Aberdeen by Charles Farquhar Shand (1635).

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