Clan Forbes Society Blogs

The Clan Forbes Society has announced the launch of a restoration project for the Keig Old Kirk on the Castle Forbes estate in Alford,...

The family of Forbes of Pitsligo is one of the three major “cadet” branches of the House of Forbes that descended from Sir John de...

Rev. Robert Forbes attempted to join the Jacobite army in 1745 – but was arrested and imprisoned for the entire coup attempt by “Bonnie...

For the first time in history, all ten hand-written volumes of the Jacobite memoir Lyon in Mourning , by Rev. Robert Forbes, Bishop of Ross and Caithness , are available to the public. The original manuscript was digitized and encoded by teams from Simon Fraser University and the National Library of Scotland headed by Dr. Leith Davis, Professor in the Department of English and the Director of the Centre for Scottish Studies at Simon Fraser University. The document, in Rev. Fo

On March 8, 2023, Major (retd) Sir Andrew Iain Ochoncar Forbes, 13th Baronet (Bt.), peacefully passed away at home surrounded by family....

On February 15, 2023, Scottish First Minister Nicole Sturgeon announced that she would be stepping down after more than eight years in...

Before the Forbes family of colonial New York was making its mark on the silver trade, brother Gilbert was making his mark in quite a...

Craigievar Castle in Aberdeenshire is one of the most popular tourist attractions managed by the National Trust for Scotland. Not only is...

Long before the building of the 13th century “Old Tower” of the original Castle Forbes (now called Druminnor Castle), our Gaelic and...

Walter Forbes was born in 1798 at Crailing House in Palmood as the second son to James Ochoncar, 17th Lord Forbes, and his wife...

William, Prince of Wales, is a direct descendent of John Forbes of Boyndlie who diverted the Aberdeenshire “cess,”or propery taxes, to...

Forbes of Rires family members were fiercely loyal to Catholic Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, in the 16th century but became avid...