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FORBES, George 3rd of Skellater
(About 1637-1710)
FARQUHARSON, Daughter
(About 1647-)
GORDON, Charles 5th of Blelack
(About 1641-Before 1698)
FORBES, Daughter
(About 1640-)
FORBES, George 4th of Skellater, Jacobite 1715
(About 1671-1730)
GORDON, Isobel
(About 1675-)
FORBES, Henry
(1715-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. GORDON, Isobel

FORBES, Henry 1

  • Baptised: 1715, Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 2 3
  • Marriage (1): GORDON, Isobel 1

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  General Notes:

"FORBES
-----
GEORGE FORBES/
M
00/00/1715
240 10 / 255
STRATHDON AND CORGARFF"

from Births and Baptisms



Old Parish Registers
Strathdon parish Aberdeenshire
Baptisms

(indexed as 1715)
"George Forbes of Skellater had a son bapt (?) wit John Fobes of Inverernan Lach(?) Forbes of Edinglassie & Inverernan" 2 3


Henry married Isobel GORDON, daughter of James GORDON 1st of Balbithan, 'author of Balbithan MS' and Jean INNES.1 (Isobel GORDON was born about 1721.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Henry (Forbes) married his cousin Isabel, heiress of Balbithan. and his son William succeeded to that estate."

from House of Forbes 1

Sources

1 e-books, The House of Forbes by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (1937) Chapter XXXIV Barnes Whence Skellater.

2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

3 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Strathdon parish Aberdeenshire Baptisms.

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