FORBES, William Coppersmith, Burgess of Aberdeen ^{1 2 3 4}

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  General Notes:

"..... Elizabeth was twice married, first to William Forbes, and next to Charles Lumsden. By the former, who succeeded to the farm, she had, with other children, a son William, who became a coppersmith and burgess of Aberdeen,...
The coppersmith, who married a daughter of the Rev. Mr.. Dyce, minister of Belhelvie, was the father of William Forbes, who bought the estates of Calender, &c., Stirlingshire, in 1783."

from Epitaphs

William married Janet DYCE, daughter of Reverend Mr William DYCE Minister of Belhelvie parish and Katherine ANDERSON, on 15 October 1740.¹ (Janet DYCE was born on 18 March 1723 ¹, baptised on 18 March 1723 in Belhelvie parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ² and died on 26 November 1803 ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Dyce (Janet), only surviving daughter of Mr. William Dyce, minister of Belhelvie, and Katharine Anderson his wife, was born in 1723. Her father (a younger brother of James Dyce of Disblair, 296) was born in 1689, settled at Belhelvie, March, 1716, and died 23rd July, 1724 - the year after this daughter's birth. Her mother, who died in 1773, at the age of seventy-two, was a daughter of the Rev. David Anderson, Professor of Divinity in King's College. Aberdeen, of whom some additional particulars will be found in the Appendix. The minister of Belhelvie had also a son Andrew, and a daughter Katharine, who both died before July, 1745, when an inventory of their effects was recorded.

In 1747, the subject of this notice, who was then wife of William Forbes, coppersmith in Aberdeen, was infeft in a tenement and ground in Old Aberdeen, as heir to her brother, and two months later she and her husband made over to her mother the life-rent of some lands in Old Aberdeen. They had a large family. She herself died 26th November, 1803. She was mother of Janet Forbes or Allardyce (329), and of Katharine Forbes or Abercrombie (320). Her son, William Forbes of Callander, is particularly referred to in the notice of her husband, and another son, George, in the account of the Lumsdens of Corrachrie in the Appendix."

from Family of Dingwall Fordyce ⁴