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ROWE, Euphemia
(About 1715-1772)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. FORBES, James of Pitmedden, Physician in Aberdeen, Dr

ROWE, Euphemia

  • Born: About 1715
  • Marriage (1): FORBES, James of Pitmedden, Physician in Aberdeen, Dr on 9 December 1747 in Montrose parish, Angus, Scotland 1
  • Died: 24 May 1772 2
  • Buried: Saint Nicholas Churchyard, Aberdeen, Scotland 2

   Other names for Euphemia were REW, Euphene and REW, Euphenia.1


Euphemia married Dr James FORBES of Pitmedden, Physician in Aberdeen, son of Reverend Mr William FORBES Mediciner, then Minister of Tarves parish and Janet GREGORY, on 9 December 1747 in Montrose parish, Angus, Scotland.1 (Dr James FORBES of Pitmedden, Physician in Aberdeen was baptised on 4 December 1701 in Leslie parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and died on 19 July 1774 3.)


  Marriage Notes:

"FORBES
JAMES
EUPHENE REW/FR1852 (FR1852)
09/12/1747
312
60 / 175
Montrose"

from Index of Marriages


Old Parish Registers
Montrose parish Angus
Marriages

"Decr 9 1747
Doctor James Forbes in Aberdeen & Mrs Euphenia Rew in this parish wer Contracted
Doctor Arbuthnot
Bailiff Geo Forbes"




"Dr James Forbes .... was twice married- first to Helen, daughter of James Forbes of Thornton, and, secondly, to Euphemia, daughter of John Row of Bondeth. By the latter marriage there were three sons and one daughter -

William of Echt and Springhill; John of Bodnod, North Wales, captain, 40th Regiment; James, of New York; and Euphemia, who married George Strachan Keith of Auquhorsk."

from Aberdeen Epitaphs 1 4

Sources


1 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Montrose parish Angus Marriages.

2 e-books, A Short Memoir of James Young and Rachel Cruickshank and of their Descendants by A.W.S. Johnson (1860).

3 e-books, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae vol. 6 Aberdeen & Moray by Hew Scott.

4 e-books, Aberdeenshire Epitaphs and Inscriptions by John A. Henderson (1907).

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