FORBES, John of Towie ^{2 3}

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John married Daughter GRANT, daughter of John GRANT 2nd of Ballindalloch and Isabella GRANT.¹ (Daughter GRANT was born about 1527.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John Forbes of Towie married Grant, daughter to John Grant of Bandallach, who did bear to him a son, who was unmercifullie murdered in the castell of Corgaffe, and after the deceass ot Bandallach's daughter, the sd. John Forbes married Margaret Campbell,.."

from Family of Forbes ¹

John next married Margaret CAMPBELL, daughter of Sir John CAMPBELL of Cawdor(Calder), jure uxoris and Muriel CALDER 9th Thane and heiress of Cawdor.² (Margaret CAMPBELL was born about 1532 and died in November 1571.). The cause of her death was trapped inside the burning Corgarff Castle.

  Marriage Notes:

"Her (Katharine, daughter of Alexander Forbes of Towie) brother, John Forbes of Towie, lost his wife, Margaret Campbell, daughter of Sir John Campbell of Calder, at the burning of Towie Castle in 1571."

from House of Gordon ²

John next married Elizabeth FORBES of Rires, 'Lady Towie', daughter of Sir George FORBES 3rd of Rires and Margaret LUNDY, after 1571.¹ (Elizabeth FORBES of Rires, 'Lady Towie' was born about 1535 and died on 22 January 1584 ⁵.)

  Marriage Notes:

"... the sd. John Forbes of Towie, after the murder of Margaret Campbell, married Forbes, daughter to the Reires, who did bear to him Arthur Forbes, Livetenant Colonell Mackay, who dyed in Germanie, with his son, Capt.Arthur..."

from Family of Forbes ¹