FORBEYS, Duncan ¹

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  General Notes:

"It seems on the whole most probable that Forbes, as a personal name, was assumed from the lands of that name in Aberdeenshire. These are said to have been in possession of the family since the time of King William the Lion, or if this is not proved, the lands appear not much later in the hands of a DUNCAN FORBEYS, who, in terms of a charter quoted by Sir John Skene in 1593, received from King Alexander the holding or tenement of Forbeys. A later writer (about 1667), Mr. William Forbes of Leslie, adds that the grant was made in the twenty-third year of King Alexander in., or about 1271. The writ was still in existence some little time before 4 February 1730, when Lord Forbes wrote to the Comte de Forbin that he had seen the charter, which he describes, and that though it was then apparently mislaid he hoped to find it again. Duncan Forbeys or Forbes is thus the first of his name on historical record."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) ¹

  Research Notes:

SONS

The first few generations presented here may not be in a father-son relationship; they are, rather, the earliest names found of this family.

Duncan married.