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IRVINE, John 7th of Kingcausie
(About 1630-1714)
RAMSAY, Elizabeth
(About 1632-)
FORBES, Thomas Merchant in Aberdeen
(About 1635-1703)
IRVINE, John 8th of Kingcausie, Jacobite 1715
(About 1664-1740)
FORBES, Margaret
(About 1679-1764)
IRVINE, James 9th of Kingcausie
(1717-1794)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. GORDON, Mary co-heiress of Fechil

2. FORBES, Mary

IRVINE, James 9th of Kingcausie 1 3 4 5

  • Baptised: 2 January 1717, Maryculter parish, Kincardineshire, Scotland 3
  • Marriage (1): GORDON, Mary co-heiress of Fechil on 4 October 1740 in Cruden parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1
  • Marriage (2): FORBES, Mary 2
  • Died: 30 December 1794, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 2

   User ID: B465

  General Notes:

"IRVINE
JAMES
JOHN IRVINE/MARGARET FORBES
M
02/01/1717
264/ 10 95
Maryculter"

from Births and Baptisms 3


James married Mary GORDON co-heiress of Fechil, daughter of Dr James GORDON 3rd of Fechil and Margaret BAIRD, on 4 October 1740 in Cruden parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.1 (Mary GORDON co-heiress of Fechil was born about 1722 and died in April 1742.)


  Marriage Notes:

"GORDON
MARY
JAMES IRVINE/
04/10/1740
185/ 10 274
Cruden"

from Index of Marriages




"Gordon, Mary, wid. of James Irvine of Kincoussie. Margaret Irvine, to her mother Mary Gordon (wid. of James Irvine of Kincoussie), who died April, 1742 h. spec, in one-third of the lands of Fechell, in the parish of Ellon S. H. Supp., 2 June ; 9 June 1742"

from Services of Heirs 1 4

James next married Mary FORBES, daughter of Vice-Admiral George FORBES 3rd Earl of Granard and Unknown.2 (Mary FORBES was born about 1720 and died on 22 November 1797 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 2.)


  Marriage Notes:

"30th December, 1794. - Died at Edinburgh, James Irvine, Esq. of Kincoussie. - (Edinburgh Evening Courant.)

22nd November, 1797. - Died at her house in Edinburgh, the Right Honourable Lady Mary Irvine, daughter of George, Earl of Granard, and widow of James Irvine of Kincoussie. - (Ibid.)"

from Irvines of Drum and Collateral Branches




"By his wife, Mary Stewart, daughter of the ist Viscount Mount joy, and widow of John Preston, he had three children, George, 4th Lord Granard, Admiral John,1 and Mary, married to James Irvine of Kincausie"

from House of Forbes 2 5

Sources


1 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.

2 e-books, The Irvines of Drum and Collateral Branches by Jonathan Forbes-Leslie (1909).

3 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

4 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 1 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1903) Appendix 1 Services of Heirs.

5 e-books, The House of Forbes by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (1937) Chapter XXIV The Earls of Granard.

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