FORBES, John of Barnes, jure uxoris ^{1 2 3 4}

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John married Elizabeth LEITH co-heiress of Barnes, daughter of George LEITH 5th of Barnes and Unknown.¹ (Elizabeth LEITH co-heiress of Barnes was born about 1501.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Leith of Leith-Hall.

This family had at different periods the designations of Barnes, Edingarroch, and Licklyhead ; and was resident in the Garioch half a century before the Reformation.

I. George Leith of Barnes, eldest son of Henry, died without male issue in 1505, leaving a daughter, Elizabeth, married to Mr, John Forbes of Towie. Their son, William Forbes of Towie, had a crown charter, 1550, of part of Barnes as his mother's apparent heir."

from Inverurie and the Earldom of the Garioch ¹