FORBES, Lewis William Minister of Boharm, Reverend Mr 3
- Born: 16 August 1794 1 2
- Baptised: 6 September 1794, Banff, Banffshire, Scotland 1
- Marriage (1): COWIE, Penelope on 12 November 1816 in Boharm parish, Banffshire, Scotland 1
- Marriage (2): YOUNG LESLIE, Elizabeth Mary of Kininvie on 20 October 1835 in Mortlach parish, Banffshire, Scotland 2
Another name for Lewis was FORBES, Lewis.1
General Notes:
"LEWIS WILLIAM FORBES, born 1794, eldest son of George F., advocate,
Aberdeen, Sheriff - Substitute of Banff; educated at King s College, Aberdeen; M.A. (29th March 1811); licen. by Presb. of Forres 4th July 1815; pres. by James, Earl Fife, in June, and ord. 20th Aug. 1816; D.D. (Marischal College, 1851);elected Moderator of the General Assembly 20th May 1852; died 8th Jan. 1854. He marr. (1) 12th Nov. 1816, Penelope (died 12th Sept. 1827, aged 34), daugh. of George Cowie, Northfield, and had issue James,
born 24th Nov. 1817, died 25th March 1845; George Cowie, born 17th June 1819, died at San Francisco Nov. 1850; Margaret Chalmers, born 14th July 1821 (marr. William Robinson Pirie, D.D., Principal of Aberdeen Univ.); Lewis Alexander, born 10th March 1823, died at Geelong, New South Wales, 30th April 1852 ; Alexander Chalmers, born 1826, died Feb. 1827: (2) 20th Oct. 1835, Elizabeth Mary (died atAberdeen 27th Feb. 1892), daugh. of Archi
bald Young Leslie of Kininvie, and had issue Jane Donaldson, born 20th Dec.
1836; Archibald, LL.D. (Aberdeen 1884), distinguished war correspondent, author of Memories and Studies of War and Peace and other works, born 17th April 1838, died 30th March 1900, and buried in Allenvale Cemetery, Aberdeen [there are tablets to his memory in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, London, and in the Ante-Chapel of Univ. of Aberdeen; the Forbes Gold
Medal in History was founded in his honour]; William Anderson, born 20th
Aug. 1839; Penelope, born 1st Feb. 1841 (marr. William Macvicar, min. of Ordiquhill); Elizabeth Mary, born 3rd Aug. 1842; Patrick Stewart, born 3rd April 1844; Jamesina, born 25th Jan. 1846; Isabella Ann, born 23rd Oct. 1849, died 3rd Nov. 1853. Publications Sermon at Opening of General Assembly (Edinburgh,1883); Account of the Parish (New Stat. Ace., xiii.). [Tombst.; Tablet in Church;Dict. Nat. Biog. [for Archibald F.]
from Fasti Ecclesiae
When his daughter, Margaret, died in 1900, her death certificate recorded Reverend Forbes as "Reverend Lewis William Forbes Minister of Boharm (deceased)". 3
Lewis married Penelope COWIE, daughter of George COWIE and Anne CHAMBERS, on 12 November 1816 in Boharm parish, Banffshire, Scotland.1 (Penelope COWIE was born on 15 October 1793 1, baptised on 19 October 1793 in Gamrie Parish, Banffshire, Scotland 1 and died on 12 September 1827 2.)
Lewis next married Elizabeth Mary YOUNG LESLIE of Kininvie on 20 October 1835 in Mortlach parish, Banffshire, Scotland.2 (Elizabeth Mary YOUNG LESLIE of Kininvie was born about 1810.)
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