FORBES, John of Tolquhon, Sir 1
User ID: W416. John married Mariote PRESTON co-heiress of Fermartyn, daughter of Sir Henry DE PRESTOUN and Elizabeth LINDSAY, by 6 July 1420(charter).1 (Mariote PRESTON co-heiress of Fermartyn was born about 1393.) Marriage Notes: "The one Mariote Preston was married to Sir John Forbes, son of Sir John Forbes, knight, and on July 6, 1420, she as daughter and one of the heiresses of Sir Henry Preston, Knight of Fermartyn, granted a charter to the said Sir John on marriage of one half of the Thanage of Fermartyn. This part is called Tolquhon, where Mariote's descendants were for many generations (and are now represented in the male line by Rev. Henry Forbes Leith of Whitehaugh), all of whom are detailed in the article 'Tolquhon.' " |
1 e-books, The Thanage of Fermartyn by William Temple (1894).
2 e-books, The House of Forbes by Alistair Tayler (1937) Chapter XXIX Tolquhon.
3 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 4 (1907).
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