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Isabel Forbes

Also Known As: "Dame Isobel Forbes"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Aberdeenshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Death: before March 22, 1622
Aberdeenshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of William Forbes, 7th Lord Forbes and Elizabeth Keith
Wife of John Gordon, 3rd of Pitlurg
Mother of Barbara Gordon, of Pitlurg; John Gordon of Pitlurg and Robert Gordon, of Pitlurg, Kinmundy, Straloch and Fechil,
Sister of Jean Forbes; John Forbes, 8th Lord Forbes; William Forbes of Fodderbirse; Elizabeth Forbes; Christian Forbes and 9 others

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About Isabel Forbes

Isabel Forbes

  • Born  16 Oct 1548  of, Forbes, , Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [1] 
  • Buried  22 Mar 1622  Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [1] 
  • Father: William Forbes, Lord Forbes,   b. Abt 1513, of, , Argyllshire, Scotland ,   d. 1593 
  • Mother:   Elizabeth Keith,   b. Abt 1520, of, Inverugie, St. Fergus, Banffshire, Scotland ,   d. Bef 13 Nov 1604 

Married

  1. 1567  [1] to John Gordon, laird of Pitlurg, of, Pitlurg, Slains, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ,   d. 16 Sep 1600 

Children

  1. John Gordon, laird of Pitlurg, of, Pitlurg, Slains, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ,   d. 1619
  2. Robert Gordon, laird of Straloch,   b. 14 Sep 1580, Kinmundy, New Machar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ,   d. 18 Aug 1661
  3. Barbara Gordon

Sources

  1. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700: The Lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Some of Their Descendants (Google eBook). Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, David Faris. Genealogical Publishing Com, Jan 1, 1992 - Reference - 253 pages. Page 229
  2. [S3544] #189 The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, with Armorial Illustrations (1904-1914), Paul , Sir James Balfour, (9 volumes. Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-1914), FHL book 941 D22p; FHL microfilms104,157-104,161., vol. 4 p. 57.
  3. The thanage of Fermartyn including the district commonly called Formartine : its proprietors, with genealogical deductions; its parishes, ministers, churches, churchyards, antiquities &c. : Temple, William, 1827. Page 311
  4. AFN  9G77-S3 
  5. [S280] Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Gordon12 (Reliability: 3)

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Isabel Forbes's Timeline

1548
October 16, 1548
Aberdeenshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1574
1574
Pitlurg, Aberdeenshire,, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1575
1575
Pitlurg, Aberdeenshire,, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1580
September 14, 1580
Pitlurg,,Aberdeenshire,Scotland
1622
March 22, 1622
Age 73
Aberdeenshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
March 22, 1622
Age 73