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FORBES, William younger of Pitsligo
(About 1441-1470)
OGILVY, Mariota
(About 1442-)
FORBES, John 2nd of Brux, 'with the slick hair', 'The White Laird'
(About 1426-)
GORDON, Elizabeth 'of Cairnborrow'
(About 1439-)
FORBES, William 'Daach', ancestor of the Forbes of Newe and of Culquhony
(About 1469-1513)
FORBES, Elizabeth
(About 1460-)
FORBES, Alexander 1st of Newe
(About 1488-1561)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. LUMSDEN, Jean

FORBES, Alexander 1st of Newe 1 2

  • Born: About 1488
  • Marriage (1): LUMSDEN, Jean 1 2
  • Died: 1561, Auchtercoull, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 2
  • Buried: 1561, Coldstone, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 2

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Alexander married Jean LUMSDEN, daughter of Robert LUMSDEN 1st of Cushnie and Isobel FORBES.1 2 (Jean LUMSDEN was born about 1499.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Alexander (Forbes), first Laird of Newe, who married Jean, daughter of Robert
Lumsden of Cushnie, and had two sons and three daughters"

from House of Forbes 2

Sources

1 e-books, Genealogical Memoirs of the Families of Colt and Coutts by Charles Rodgers (1879).

2 e-books, The House of Forbes by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (1937) Chapter XXVIII Newe.

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