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FORBES, Alaster 'Cam' 1st of Brux
(About 1388-Before 1438)
CAMERON, Katharine
(About 1397-)
FORBES, Duncan of Drumallachie, 1st of Towie
(About 1428-)
CRICHTON, Elizabeth 'Bessie' 'of Conland'
(About 1435-)
FORBES, John 3rd of Brux, 'the Glyd Laird'
(About 1470-Before 1527)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. FORBES, Agnes

2. GORDON, Mariot

FORBES, John 3rd of Brux, 'the Glyd Laird' 2

  • Born: About 1470
  • Marriage (1): FORBES, Agnes
  • Marriage (2): GORDON, Mariot 28 Mat 1507 (charter) 1
  • Died: Before 1527 3

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John married Agnes FORBES, daughter of Sir Arthur FORBES of Rires and Elizabeth WEMYSS heiress of Rires. (Agnes FORBES was born about 1480.)


  Marriage Notes:

"John Forbes of Brux, alias the glyd Laird, second sone to Duncan of Drumalachie, married Agnes Forbes, daughter to Arthur Forbes of Reires, who did bear to him Bessie Forbes Lady of Echt.... "

from Family of Forbes 2

John next married Mariot GORDON, daughter of Robert GORDON of Fetterletter and Janet INNES, 28 Mat 1507 (charter).1 (Mariot GORDON was born about 1485.)


  Marriage Notes:

".... after the deceass of the sd. Agnes, the sd. glyed John married Mary Gordon, daughter to Robert Gordon of Fetterlester, and one of his airs; who did bear to him Alex, Forbes, Laird of Brux, and Margaret and Janet Forbesses."

from Family of Forbes




"He (John Forbes) married Mariot, daughter to Robert Gordon of Fotherletter and Udoch. Upon 28th May 1507, Robert Gordon grants a charter in their favour, and that of the heirs to be procreated between them, of the half lands of Udoch and the lands of Meikle Bythe, in the barony of Kinedward, reserving the frank tenement, and reasonable terce of Janet Innes, his spouse (Reg. Mag. Sig.,xiv.,319)."

from Records of Aboyne 1 2

Sources


1 e-books, The Records of Aboyne 1230-1681 edited by Charles XI Marquis of Huntly (1894).

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

3 e-books, House of Forbes by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (1937 and 1987) found at https://www.clan-forbes.org/house-of-forbes Brux.

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