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FORBES, William of Echt (second family), and of Springhill, Merchant in Aberdeen
(1748-1820)
ARBUTHNOTT, Elizabeth
(1754-)
NIVEN, John of Thornton
(About 1745-)
LUMSDEN, Rachel
(1748-1786)
FORBES, James of Echt (second family), Merchant in Aberdeen
(1775-1850)
NIVEN, Jean
(1779-)
FORBES, Jane
(1807-1883)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. LUMSDEN, Clements Advocate

FORBES, Jane 1 2 3 4

  • Baptised: 5 October 1807, Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland 4
  • Marriage (1): LUMSDEN, Clements Advocate on 3 July 1827 in Echt parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1 2 3
  • Died: 20 December 1883, Aberdeen, Scotland 2

   User ID: K613.

  General Notes:

"FORBES
JANE
JAMES FORBES/JANE NIVEN
F
05/10/1807
168 / A 100 / 312
ABERDEEN"

from Births and Baptisms 4


Jane married Clements LUMSDEN Advocate, son of Harry LUMSDEN of Belhelvie, Advocate and Catherine McVEAGH, on 3 July 1827 in Echt parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.1 2 3 (Clements LUMSDEN Advocate was baptised on 24 March 1796 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland 4 and died on 27 November 1853 in 17 Albyn Place, Aberdeen, Scotland 2.)


  Marriage Notes:

"LUMSDEN
CLEMENTS
JANE FORBES/
03/07/1827
168 / B 160 / 265
OLD MACHAR"

"LUMSDEN
CLEMENTS
JANE FORBES/
03/07/1827
191 30 / 97
ECHT"

from Index of Marriages




"Lumsden, Clements. 5th July, 1825.

Eighth son of Hary Lumsden, advocate (1778). Born at Aberdeen, 24th March, 1796. Alumnus, Mar. Coll., 1813-15. App., first, to his father, and, second, to Richard Hotchkis and James Tytler, W.S., Edinburgh. W.S., admitted 8th July, 1823. Sometime in partnership with his elder brother, Henry Lumsden (1807), firm being Henry & Clements Lumsden ; subsequently on his own account, and thereafter with John Robertson (1852), firm being Lumsden & Robertson. Notary Public. Joint collector of County Rates for Aberdeenshire, 1826-44, ar|d thereafter sole collector. Commissioner of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland. Fiars Juror, 1834-50. Portrait by James Giles, R.S.A., at Johnston House, Rubislaw.

Married, at Echt House, 3rd July, 1827, Jane (born at Springhill, 5th October, 1807, died at Aberdeen, 20th December, 1883, aged 76), third dau. of James Forbes of Echt, with issue : -

1. Henry William, born at Aberdeen, 23rd August, 1829; Lieut.-Colonel, Royal (Madras) Artillery ; F.S.A., Scot. ; author of 'Memorials of the Family of Lumsdaine or Lumsden,' and 'Beowulf - Translated into Modern Rhymes' ; married his cousin, Catherine Edith Lumsden,dau. of Hugh Lumsden of Pitcaple ; died at Langley Park, Montrose, 23rd December, 1909.

2. James Forbes, advocate (1862).

1. Jane Edith, born at Aberdeen, 8th June, 1828; died at Exmouth, 2nd March, 1897.

2. Katharine Maria, born at Aberdeen, 11th October, 1831 ; honorary superintendent, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Aberdeen, 1885-1901.

3. Elizabeth, born at Aberdeen, 26th December, 1833 ; died 20th April, 1840.

4. Rachel Frances, born at Ferryhill, 17th April, 1835 ; honorary superintendent, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Aberdeen, 1877-85 ; honorary superintendent, Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, 1885-97 ; died at Aberdeen, 22nd April, 1908.

5. Louisa Innes, born at Aberdeen, 31st December, 1840; Classical Honours, Girton College, Cambridge ; Classical Tutor of Girton College and of the Cheltenham Ladies' College, 1873-77; First Head-Mistress of St. Leonards School, St. Andrews, 1877-82 ; First Warden of the University Hall of Women Students, University of St. Andrews, 1895-1900; LL.D., St. And.

Died at 17 Albyn Place, Aberdeen, 27th November, 1853."

from History of the Society of Advocates 1 2 3

Sources


1 e-books, House of Forbes by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (1937 and 1987) found at https://www.clan-forbes.org/house-of-forbes Descendants of Waterton.

2 e-books, History of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen ed. John A. Henderson (1912).

3 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.

4 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

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