FORBES, Marjory

   Another name for Marjory was FORBES, Meriorie.

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Marjory married Robert SKENE younger, Merchant Burgess, Treasurer of Aberdeen Council, son of Robert SKENE ancestor of Skene of Newtyle and Janet FORBES, in 1618. (Robert SKENE younger, Merchant Burgess, Treasurer of Aberdeen Council was born about 1592 and died in 1643.)

  Marriage Notes:

" .... on 25th March, 1630, there is a decreet Robert Skene, younger, burgess of Aberdeen, eldest son to the deceased Robert Skene in Slydie, of Erdifork, against W. Gordon of Abergeldie, on a bond to the deceased Robert Skene, dated 29th May, 1618, and again in a similar decreet, on 19th July, 1634, and again on 22nd July, 1642.

He married, in 1618, Marjorie Forbes ; and, on 1st April, 1629, there is a sasine in favour of Robert Skene, merchant burgess, and Marjoria Forbes, of a house 'in vico lemurum ex occidentali parte.' "

from Memorials of the Family of Skene