Bellabeg House today (left) is next Bellabeg hamlet where the main road crosses the Nochty
Bellabeg
[While Bellabeg is hardly within Glen Nochty, it is included here as its estate included farms within the southern part of the glen].
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Bellabeg House today (left) is next Bellabeg hamlet where the main road crosses the Nochty |
The Valuation of 1667 for the Parish of Invernochty (Strathdon) after Belnabodach shows Mr William Elphinston heritor of an un-named estate valued at £110-11-10 (apparently he was Minister of Durris).
The Poll Book of 1696 shows a valuation of £150 for Bellabegg, and lists William Elphinstone of Bellabegg and his wife and children John, Georg, William, James, Marrion, and Elspet, his servants Alester Shaw (fee £10 per annum) and James Grant (fee £4 per annum), and tenants at
Comertoun William McYock and his wife and two sons [over 16] , Roderick Dumbarr, millart, and his wife, and his son Patrick Dumbarr
The Bond of 1699 for Peaceable Behaviour under John Elphinston of Belabeg shows Wm. Grassick & John Nairn his servts and Wm Mckyoak elder & yor & Hercules Mckyoak all in Camertoun.
Cess Roll of 1715 says George Forbes brother to the 6th Laird of New held the lands of Bellabeg in 1715 and sold these to Lachlan Forbes of Edinglassie whose son William had sasine in July 1716. It says Lachlan (a Jacobite) was 'skulking in the hills' in 1717 but himself had sasine on Bellabeg in 1719.
In 1721 Heritors Records for Strathdon (NAS HR 733/6) show Lachlan Forbes of Edinglassie for his lands of 'Ballabog'
In 1735 Feu Duties of Mar (Aberdeen University MS 3175/M/A35) shows George Forbes of Bellabeg as heritor (so presumably he had secured his lands back from Edinglassie).
In 1746 (the year after the death of his father George) John Forbes took sasine on Bellabeg (Aberdeen University MS 3402 Bundle 25).
In 1772 this John Forbes also acquired Ledmacay but he over-extended himself and in 1781had to dispone the town and lands of Ledmacay &c in favour of his creditors. In 1783 the creditors' trustees resigned these lands to the same John Forbes and his elder son Revd George Forbes on assurances from John Forbes' second son, John Forbes of Bombay, to whom his lands were disponed in 1784. [Aberdeen University MS 3402 Bundle 29].
In 1798 the Tax Schedule (NAS E 326/15/1) shows a Miss Forbes at Bellabeg with four horses and eight windows.