FORBES, William 7th of Tolquhon ¹

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William married Elizabeth GORDON, daughter of George GORDON 2nd of Lesmoir and Katharine FORBES.¹ (Elizabeth GORDON was born about 1542.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Elizabeth (Gordon) married William Forbes of Tolquhon (Macfarlane's Genealogical Collections ), who built the Castle thereof between 1584 and 1589. He also added to the old Church of Tarves a south aisle, which is thus described in Jervise's Epitaphs (vol. ii., p. 350) :

' The front of the Tolquhon or south aisle is in a fair state of preservation, and an object of considerable architectural elegance. Besides traces of painting upon the ceiling of the tomb, two shields charged with the Forbes and Gordon arms respectively, and exhibiting the initials W F, E G and the date 1589, the arch of the tomb bears curious carvings of two hounds, one chasing a fox with a bird in its mouth, and the other pursuing a boar. The Tolquhon motto, SALUS PER CHRISTUM, is upon the scroll above the Forbes Arms, and above the Gordon Arms are the words, "DOCHTER TO LESMOR ".'

A photograph of this tomb, printed in autotype, forms the frontispiece of Jervise's second volume. The initials W and F are on each side of the shield charged with the Tolquhon arms, and the initials E and G on each side of the shield charged with the Lesmoir arms, or rather, perhaps, Tolquhon's arms impaled with those of his wife's family. Janet (see extract below) had a son, Peter Forbes of Tolquhon, and the present representative of Forbes of Tolquhon is descended from Lesmoir's daughter."

from Lesmoir




"Although the inscription is imperfect, the initials E. G. show that the lady's Christian name was probably Elizabeth, Elspeth, or Eliza, and not Janet, as given in both Douglas' Baronage and in Harperfield's Pedigree of the Gordons. Lumsden of Tilliecairn (although himself sprung from the Tolquhon branch, and a contemporary) leaves the lady's Christian name blank, adding that she ' did bear to [her husband] Wm. Forbes of Knapernae, Mr. Walter Forbes of Auchredie, Patrick Forbes, burgess of Aberdeen, and ane daughter, married on ------- Forbes of Corsindae.' "

from Epitaphs and Inscriptions

Note:

There is a bit of a confusion regarding which laird had which daughter, and who their marriage partners were. The daughter who married Corsindae is said by House of Forbes to have been the daughter of the sixth laird; and that the seventh laird had a daughter who married Robert Cumming but the dates suggest he was her brother not her father. ^{1 2 3}