FORBES, Barbara ¹

   Another name for Barbara was FORBES, Elspet.³

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Barbara married James GORDON, son of George GORDON 2nd of Lesmoir and Katharine FORBES.¹ (James GORDON was born about 1546.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Robert (Forbes), his (Robert Forbes senior's) third son, succeeded. He married Janet Fraser of Durris, relict of John Cheyne of Arnage, and had issue, John, his heir, and Barbara, who married (1) James, son of George Gordon of Lesmoir, and (2) Gilbert, son of the Laird of Skene."

from House of Forbes

Note:

In Lesmoir, Wimberley stated that:

"James Gordon .... married, according to Matthew Lumsden's genealogy of the house of Forbes, Barbara, daughter to Robert Forbes of Echt, and relict of John Cheyne of Arnage."

This is not so, in fact. What Lumsden wrote was:

"Robert Forbes of Echt married Janet Fraser, daughter to the Robert Laird of Duires, and relict of John Chein of Arnage, who did bear to him John Forbes, Laird of Echt, with a daughter called Barbara, who was married to James Gordon, sone to George Gordon of Lesmorr, and yr'after to Gilbert Skeen, son to the Laird of Skeen." ^{1 2 4}

Barbara next married Gilbert SKENE in Tillibirloch, son of Alexander SKENE 11th of that Ilk, 'the little laird' and Elizabeth FORBES.² (Gilbert SKENE in Tillibirloch was born about 1555 and died by 1609 ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Barbara (Forbes), as relict of James Gordon, married Gilbert Skene, son to the laird of Skene."

from Lesmoir




"Gilbert Skene in Tillibirloch, second son of Alexander Skene XI. of Skene, commonly called 'the little laird,' married Barbara Forbes, daughter of Robert Forbes of Echt, by whom he had three sons and three daughters"

from Skene of Skene ^{2 3}