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FORBES, Malcolm 4th of Tolquhoun
(About 1456-Before 1509)
FORBES, Margaret
(About 1457-)
LEITH, Henry 4th of Barnes
(About 1457-)
GORDON, Elizabeth
(About 1460-)
FORBES, William 5th of Tolquhon
(About 1477-1527)
LEITH, Daughter
(About 1481-)
FORBES, John apparent of Tolquhon
(About 1502-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. CHEYNE, Janet

FORBES, John apparent of Tolquhon 1 2

  • Born: About 1502
  • Marriage (1): CHEYNE, Janet by 6 June 1527 (charter)
  • Died: dvp

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John married Janet CHEYNE, daughter of Sir Patrick CHEYNE 6th of Esslemont, Burgess of Aberdeen and Isobel BADE, by 6 June 1527 (charter). (Janet CHEYNE was born about 1512.)


  Marriage Notes:

"William (Forbes) was served heir to his father, Malcolm, on January 8th, 1509. He married a daughter of Leith of Barnes, and had two sons, John and Alexander, and several daughters. In 1522 he married, secondly, Isabel, daughter of the Earl of Erroll, and had a son, Arthur, and a daughter, Isabel.

On June 6th, 1527, William Forbes of Tolquhon granted to his eldest son John, and to 'Janet Chein, wife of John,' a charter of the lands of Mynnony, signed at ' Essilmont,' the residence of Sir Patrick Cheyne, the bride's father. John died in his father's lifetime"

from House of Forbes

Sources


1 Internet Site, http://sites.rootsweb.com/~cheyne/p2221.htm The Cheyne Family WebSite.

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

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