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DE FORBES, John 'dominus ejusdem', 'of that Ilk'
(About 1325-1387)
Margaret
(About 1330-)
KENNEDY, John of Dunure
(About 1320-1385)
Mary
(About 1330-)
FORBES, John 'of the Black Lip', Sir
(About 1347-1406)
KENNEDY, Elizabeth or Margaret
(About 1358-)
FORBES, John of Tolquhon, Sir
(About 1386-1454)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. PRESTON, Mariote co-heiress of Fermartyn

FORBES, John of Tolquhon, Sir 1

  • Born: About 1386
  • Marriage (1): PRESTON, Mariote co-heiress of Fermartyn by 6 July 1420(charter) 1
  • Died: by 15 July 1454 2

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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.' "

from Thanage of Fermartyn




"Sir John Forbes, who obtained the thanedom of Formartin and lands of Tolquhoun by marriage with Mariota, daughter and heir of Sir Henry Preston of Formartin, knight, widow of Alexander Chisholm, and was ancestor of the Forbeses of Tolquhoun, Foveran, Watertoun, Culloden, and others."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) 1 3

Sources


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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