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FORBES, John 1st of Pitnacaddell
(About 1557-Before 1631)
HAY, Daughter 'of Brunthill'
(About 1576-)
JOHNSTON, John of that Ilk
(About 1561-Before 1614)
LUNDY, Katherine
(About 1571-1616)
FORBES, John 2nd of Pitnacaddell
(About 1600-Before 1690)
JOHNSTON, Christian
(About 1612-)
FORBES, Alexander elder, 1st of Ballogie
(About 1635-After 1698)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. FORBES, Jean

FORBES, Alexander elder, 1st of Ballogie 1 2 3 4

  • Born: About 1635
  • Marriage (1): FORBES, Jean 1
  • Died: After 10 March 1698

   User ID: Y254

  Noted events in his life were:

• Witness: at baptism, 25 August 1695, Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland. 3


Alexander married Jean FORBES, daughter of Robert FORBES of Barnes, Tutor of Monymusk and Jean FORBES.1 (Jean FORBES was born about 1637.)


  Marriage Notes:

" ... whereby our said sovereign lord, with advice and consent of the lords commissioners of his majesty's treasury and exchequer, gave, granted and conveyed to his majesty's beloved Alexander Forbes, elder of Ballogie, son to John Forbes of Pitnacalder and Jean Forbes, his spouse ..... whereby also his majesty, for the causes therein mentioned, did of new give and convey to the said Alexander Forbes, elder, his said spouse and son and their foresaids, the whole lands, barony and others particularly above-written, and did unite of new the same in a full and free barony, called the barony of Ballogie ..."

from Records of Parliaments of Scotland




"Alexander Forbes, second son of the 2nd Laird of Pitnacaddel, bought Ballogie, parish of Midmar, about 1650. He married Jean, daughter of Robert Forbes, Tutor of Monymusk, and had three sons and five daughters:

John, died young. Alexander, who succeeded. George of Kebbaty and Shiels. (1 ) Margaret, born 1741, married Irvine of Kincausie. (2) ------- married Burnett (see Note below) of Lethenty. (3) ----- married Burnett in London. (4) Barbara, married Garioch of Kinstair. (5) Elizabeth, unmarried."

from House of Forbes

Note:

This is likely an error for Rose of Lethenty.
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Sources


1 Internet Site, https://www.rps.ac.uk/ The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 Ratification in favour of [Alexander Forbes], laird of Ballogie 6 September 1681.

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

3 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Saint Nicholas parish Aberdeen Baptisms.

4 e-books, Aberdeenshire Epitaphs and Inscriptions by John A. Henderson (1907) Lonmay parish.

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