Notes:

Wilhelmina (described in her obituary notice as the nineteenth child), born 1724. Married, August 1747, David, earl of Leven and Melville. She died 10th May 1798.
[http://www.valacar.net/nisbet/origins/plates5.htm]

Wilhelmina married David (6th Earl Leven 5th Melville) Leslie, 6th Earl of Leven, 5th Earl of Melville on 29 Jul 1747 in Melville House, Monimail, Fifeshire, Scotland. David (son of Alexander (5th Earl Leven and 4th Melville) Leslie, 5th Earl of Leven, 4th Earl of Melville and Mary (of Carnock) Erskine) was born on 4 May 1722 in Leven, Fifeshire, Scotland; died on 9 Jun 1802 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jane Thornton. Jane was born on 11 Feb 1757 in Clapham, London, Middlesex, England; died on 13 Feb 1818 in Melville House, Fifeshire, UK; was buried in Markinch, Fifeshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married James 6th Lord (of Freeland) Ruthven in Nov 1776. James (son of James 5th Lord (of Freeland) Ruthven and Janet (of Direlton) Nisbet) was born on 16 Dec 1733; died on 27 Dec 1789. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Capt. James Ruthven, 6th Lord Ruthven of Freeland on 12 Nov 1776. James was born on 16 Dec 1733; died on 27 Dec 1789. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1 - Lady Jane was revered for every virtue. Her deeds of piety and generosity are recorded by the late Rev. Robert Foote in his account of the parish; and the old people of Fettercairn held her memory in grateful remembrance. The portraits of Sir John and Lady Jane are carefully preserved in Fettercairn House; and that of their daughter, taken at a later period, is specially and deservedly venerated.
[http://www.electricscotland.com/history/fettercairn/chapter12.htm]

2 - Lady Jane Leslie, eldest daughter of David, earl of Leven and Melville, and had an only child, Williamina.
[https://electricscotland.com/history/nation/belsches.htm]

Jane married Sir John Belsches-Wishart, only son on 29 Nov 1775. John died on 5 Dec 1810 in Dspm - Died Without Male Issue. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jane Cumming. Jane was born about 1758 in Raith, Fifeshire, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Elizabeth Ann Campbell on 21 Jun 1824 in Monimail, Fifeshire, Scotland. Elizabeth was born about 1807 in Succoth, Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; died on 6 Nov 1863; was buried in Monimail, Fifeshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1 - Melville, Hon. Alexander Leslie, of Branston Hall, Lincoln, admitted 24 Feb. 1824, son of Alexander, 10th Earl of Leven, born 18 June 1800, died 19 Nov. 1881, mar. 19 Oct. 1825 Charlotte (died 26 April 1879), daugh-ter of Samuel Smith. M.P. of Woodhall Park, Herts.
(THE FACULTY OF ADVOCATES OF SCOTLAND 1532-1943 WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 1944 p.147)

2 - Father of
Charlotte Elizabeth Malcolm;
Marianne Leslie Brown Douglas;
Alexander Samuel Leslie Melville;
William David Leslie Melville;
Caroline Fremantle;
Rev Frederick Abel Leslie Melville;
Charles Leslie Melville;
Henry Leslie Melville;
Lucy Sophia Emily Wright;
Emily Leslie Melville;
Arthur Henry Leslie Melville and
Louisa Jane Leslie Melville
[https://www.geni.com/people/Alexander-Leslie-Melville-of-Branston-Hall/6000000026118280679?through=6000000026117345183]

Alexander married Charlotte Smith on 19 Oct 1825. Charlotte was born about 1802 in Wilford, Nottinghamshire, England; died on 26 Apr 1879. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Mary Campbell on 20 Dec 1813. Mary died on 5 Apr 1885. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walter Hore (later Hore-Ruthven), Sheriff of co. Wexford, Ireland. Walter was born on 6 Jun 1784; died on 16 Apr 1878. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1 - The issue of her parents marriage was an only child, a daughter Williamina, born in October, 1776. Her hand was sought by men of rank, and notably Sir Walter Scott, who narrates, in the introduction of the Antiquary, the intended journey by coach of a young man - no other than himself - on a love expedition to the Mearns. In canto iv. of Rokeby, Miss Stuart, it is believed, stands in beauty and grace as the prototype of Matilda, and here a line or two of sect. 5 may be quoted : -
"Wreathed in its dark-brown rings, her hair
Half hid Matilda's forehead fair,
Half hid and half reveal'd to view
Her full dark eye of hazel hue."
She married William Forbes, younger of Pitsligo, who thereupon took the name and arms of the Stuart family; and at his father's death became Sir William Stuart Forbes of Pitsligo and Fettercaim.
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2 - An only child, Williamina, married, in 1797, to William Forbes, Esq., subsequently Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, baronet, and had, with other children, Sir John Stuart Forbes, eighth baronet of Pitsligo and Fettercairn.
[https://electricscotland.com/history/nation/belsches.htm]

Williamina married Sir William Forbes, of Pitsligo, 7th Baronet in 1797. William was born on 21 Dec 1773; died on 24 Oct 1828. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emily married John Glencairn Carter Hamilton, of Dalzell, 1st Lord Hamilton of Dalzell on 29 Mar 1864 in Fifeshire, Scotland. John was born on 16 Nov 1829 in Marseilles, Bouches-Du-Rh?ne, Provence-Alpes-C?te D'azur, France; was christened on 12 Apr 1830 in Dalziel, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 15 Oct 1900 in Dalziel, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was buried on 19 Oct 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married William Stirling-Maxwell, 15th of Keir, 12th of Cadder,9th Baronet of Pollok on 26 Apr 1865 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. William was born on 8 Mar 1818; died on 15 Jan 1878. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mother of
Charlotte Melville Stalker;
Francis Archibald Brown Douglas;
Lucy Jane Brown Douglas;
Charles Christie Brown Douglas;
Marianne Georgina van Millingen;
Emily Catherine Brunton;
Edith Anna Brown Douglas;
Alexander Leslie Brown Douglas;
Rev. William Henry Brown Douglas and
Albinia Mary Brown Douglas
[https://www.geni.com/people/Marianne-Brown-Douglas/6000000026117345183?through=6000000026118280679]

Marianne married Francis Brown Douglas on 28 Jan 1852. Francis was born on 2 Apr 1814; died on 8 Aug 1885. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dells Honoria Lowen. Dells was born about 1819; died on 9 Nov 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Jemima Macdonell in 1833. Jemima was born on 27 Sep 1814; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Identified as "George Forbes of Pitsligo family". Dates indicate probably of this generation.-Ed.

George married Mary Hay on 8 Feb 1819. Mary died on 3 Mar 1877. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1 - Sir William Stuart Forbes died in 1828, and John, his eldest surviving son, succeeded to the estates and titles. On the death of his cousin, Alexander Hepburn-Murray Belsches of Invermay and Balmanno, he succeeded, in 1864, as heir of entail to these estates, and assumed the additional surname and arms of Hepburn. He had been educated for the bar, and that training served him in good stead throughout his career, in the conduct of affairs, as a public-spirited and philanthropic county gentleman. It may be truly said that upon him fell the mantle of his grandfather, and that, by those who knew him, his like may not again be seen. He spared neither time, trouble, nor expense in promoting the welfare of his fellow-creatures; and in many instances, known to the writer of these pages, he worked late and early, both in and out, regardless of bodily case and comfort, for the sake of doing good. He held a prominent place among agriculturists, and in their councils he was regarded as an authority. He was long an active and leading member of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, a patron and promoter of the Fettercairn Farmers' Club, taking, in connection with these bodies, a deep and humane interest in the state of the agricultural labourer, and making praiseworthy efforts to elevate his condition. As an enlightened and advanced educationist he had few equals. The schools on his extensive estates, and the parochial schools with which he had to do as an heritor, were the objects of his constant care; with a hand ever open to supply their wants, and with wise counsels ever ready to guide the teachers. In 1857 the evening entertainments known as Penny Readings, and which for a time became so common all over the country, were begun by him in Fettercairn, as the first of the kind in Scotland. In 1856, along with the Marquis of Tweedale, he founded the Scottish Meteorological Society; and continued to use his influence and lend his aid for the promotion of its objects. As a deputy-lieutenant and the convener of Kincardineshire, he took a leading part in the business of the county. In 1834 he married Lady Harriet Kerr, third daughter of William sixth Marquis of Lothian, who survived him. She died at London in 1884, truly and sincerely regretted by all, and specially by the people of Fettercairn, who had so long experienced her kindly acts of benevolence and charity.
Sir John died in London in May, 1866, and was interred in the family tomb in Edinburgh Greyfriars' Churchyard. Their only child and daughter, Harriet-Williamina, married, in July, 1858, her cousin, the Efbn. Charles Henry Rolle Trefusis, now twentieth Baron Clinton.
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2 - Modern Buildings. ? There is no mansion-house on the estate of Kincardine, the proprietor, Sir John Stuart Forbes, Bart. residing at Fettercairn House, in the adjoining parish.
[Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1845]

3 - Forbes, Sir John Stewart, of Pitsligo, Bart., enrolled 11 July 1826, son of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, Bart., born 25 Sept. 1804, died 27 May 1866, mar. 14 June 1834 Lady Harriet Kerr (born 19 Oct. 1808. died 26 April 1884), daughterf William, 6th Marquis of Lothian. Succeeded 1828, assumed name of Hepburn.
(THE FACULTY OF ADVOCATES OF SCOTLAND 1532-1943 WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 1944)

John married Harriet Louise Anne Kerr on 13 Jun 1834. Harriet was born on 19 Oct 1808; died on 24 Apr 1884. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

youngest son
Forbes, James David, D.C.L., LL.D., enrolled 3-7 July 1830, youngest son of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, Bart., born 20 April 1809, died 31 Dec. 1868, mar. 4 July 1843 Alicia Wauchope (died 21 Feb. 1885), eldest daughter of George Wauchope, Edinburgh. Professor of Natural Philosophy Edinburgh University 30 Jan. 1833, Principal of United Colleges St. Andrews 1859.
(THE FACULTY OF ADVOCATES OF SCOTLAND 1532-1943 WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES 1944)

James married Alicia Wauchope on 4 Jul 1843. Alicia died on 21 Feb 1885. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]