George Forbes (abt. 1732 - abt. 1789)

Born about 1732 in Auchernach, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

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Biography

Nathaniel Forbes, eldest son by the third marriage of Willim of Benabodach, married Isabella, daughter of John Stewart of Drumin, who died October 29th 1772, and had ten sons and two daughters:

(1) William, died young. (2) Charles, succeeded his father. (3) George, married Elizabeth Gordon in Auchindoir and left issue. He died on his passage home from India in 1789--his daughter, Marie, married Joseph Brett. (4) John, comptroller of the Customs in Aberdeen, married Anne Bowman, by whom he had five children who died in infancy; a daughter, Sophia, married her cousin, Nathaniel of Auchernach. (5) Lachlan, died in Havana, 1782. (6) James, died in Bengal, 1770. (7) Gordon of Ham Common, General, died 1828 (8) Hugh, died in the West Indies (9) Urquhart, died young (10) David, killed at Gradaloupe, 1794

Anne, married _____ Carmichael. Christian married _____ Webster.

Sources

• *Book: The House of Forbes, by Alistair Tayler, Third Spalding Club, Aberdeen, Scotland, 1937, Part II. Chapter XXXIV. Barnes, Whence Skellater, page 512.