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FORBES, Alexander 1st of Invernochty
(About 1550-)
WIFE, Unnamed
(About 1565-)
FORBES, Arthur 2nd of Invernochty
(About 1590-Before 1675)
COUTTS, Violet
(About 1615-)
FORBES, Alexander 3rd of Invernochty
(About 1635-1722)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. ROSS, Isabella

FORBES, Alexander 3rd of Invernochty 2 3

  • Born: About 1635
  • Marriage (1): ROSS, Isabella on 2 July 1676 in Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1 2
  • Died: 1722 1

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  General Notes:

"CULL

Alexander Forbes of Invernochtie his particular valuation within the said pariochen of Invernochtie is in all £100 0 0

The hundredth part whereof is £1 0 0

(Nota - This is not divided amongst the tenants in the poll list given up, but is to be payed by the heretor in a soume.)

Invernochties owne particular poll, according to his valuatione, is £4, and general poll 6s inde both is ....... £4 6 0

Item, his wyfe and four children, to wit William, Adam, Arthur, and Helen Forbesses payes of general poll each of them 6s., is ....... £1 10 0"

(There follows the poll for two of his servants John Watsone and William Beittie) (pages 544 and 545)

from 1696 Poll Book 4

  Noted events in his life were:

1. sponsor at baptism, 11 August 1675, Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 5

2. sponsor at baptism, 14 March 1677, Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 5

3. sponsor at baptism, 12 June 1696, Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 5

4. sponsor at baptism, 22 October 1697, Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 5

5. sponsor at baptism, 9 February 1698, Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 5

6. sponsor at baptism, 1 September 1700, Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 5

7. sponsor at baptism, 27 July 1703, Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 5

8. sponsor at baptism, 12 August 1703, Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 5

9. sponsor at baptism, 2 December 1703, Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 5


Alexander married Isabella ROSS on 2 July 1676 in Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.1 2 (Isabella ROSS was born about 1645.)


  Marriage Notes:

"FORBES
ALEXANDER
ISOBEL ROSS/FR150 (FR150)
02/07/1676
240 10 / 273
Strathdon and Corgarff"

from Index of Marriages




"Arthur's son, Alexander (Forbes), appears in the Poll Book of 1696 with his wife, Isabella Ross, widow of John Forbes of Buchaam, whom he had married July 2nd, 1676, and William, Adam and Arthur his children."

from House of Forbes 1 2

Sources


1 e-books, The House of Forbes by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (1937) Chapter XXVIX Cadets of Newe Invernochty.

2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.

3 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Strathdon Marriages 16 August 1702.

4 ancestry.co.uk, List of Pollable Persons within the Shire of Aberdeen 1696 vol.1 Paroch of Invernochtie (1844).

5 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Strathdon parish Aberdeenshire Baptisms.

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