FORBES, ARVID [SSNE 2229]

Surname
FORBES, FORBUS OF LUND
First name
ARVID
Title/rank
FORBUS OF LUND
Nationality
SCOTO-SWEDISH
Region
LUND
Social status
NOBILITY

Text source

This Arvid Forbes was the great grandson of Henry Forbes of Thainstone. If so he was the son of Peter Forbes and grandson of James Forbes of Thainstone. His mother would have been Margereta Swinhulvud. He died in 1700 with the rank of lieutenant. Arvid had been married to another ethnic Scot, Marta Philp [SSNE 8303] in her second marriage.

 

Sources: Swedish Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll, 1683/20; 1684/1,5; 1685/9; 1686/3; 1687/3; 1691/5; 1692/9; 1693/6; 1696/5; A. and H. Tayler (eds.), The House of Forbes (Bruceton Mills, 1987), pp.469-471.

Service record

SWEDEN, UPPLAND REGIMENTS
Arrived 1683-01-01, as ENSIGN
Departed 1696-12-31, as ENSIGN
Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY