FORBES, Grizel ³

   Other names for Grizel were FORBES, Grissel ¹ and FORBES, Grizell.²

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Grizel married John DOUGLAS of Inchmarlo, then of Tilquhillie, son of James DOUGLAS of Inchmarlo and Isabel RAMSAY, on 15 February 1666 in Ellon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.^{1 2} (John DOUGLAS of Inchmarlo, then of Tilquhillie was born about 1636 and died in 1723 ^{3 4}.)

  Marriage Notes:

"DOUGLAS
JOHN
GRIZELL FORBES/
15/02/1666
192 30 / 38
ELLON"

from Index of Marriages




"1666. Contract of Marriage, John Dowglass (eldest son of James Dowglass of Inchmarlie, and Isobel Ramsay), with Grissel Forbes, with consent of her mother, Jean Ramsay, and her brother, Sir John Forbes. James Dowglass, the father, settled all his lands on them and their heirs male, after his own and his wife's death, and, in the meantime, agrees to allow them 600 marks a-year. If there shall be no heirs male, and but one daughter, she is to have 6000 marks - if more, 10,000 marks among them, payable at 14 years old. Sir John Forbes gives, with his sister, 6000 marks, to be laid out on mortgage, for the benefit of the younger children."

from Family of Forbes of Waterton




"John Douglas of Inchmarlo and Tilquhillie. He was retoured heir to his father in Inchmarlo in 1673, and in 1684 he received Tilquhillie from the creditors of his uncle, Sir Robert (No. 375). He died 1723. He married first, in 1666, Grizel, sister of Sir John Forbes of Watterton, and had : - (a) James Douglas, died unmarried. (b) John (No. 378)."

from Heraldry of the Douglases ^{1 2 3}