-----Original Message----- From: kdegray <kdegray@email.msn.com> To: FORBES-L-@Rootsweb.com <FORBES-L-@Rootsweb.com> Date: 31 October 1999 15:41 Subject: Looking for a Laird >Does any FORBES chasers out there know of a THOMAS FORBES, LAIRD OF >THORNTON? Thornton Castle was north of Montrose in Scotland. He was married >to Elizabeth Lyon of Glamis Castle. I want to know if he was involved in >the 1745 uprising and if he was a Jacobite or not. I know he died before >1749 as his daughter's marriage record shows 'Late Thomas Forbes'. I would >be grateful for any info at all on the Forbes of Forfarshire, Aberdeen and >Montrose. > > here's hoping, Kay in Marlow. > > >