Gensite - Forbes Family
Looking for the family of
Edward Stanley FORBES (Teddie)
(b.1901, Folkestone)

Please email: forbes1@gensite.co.uk if you know anything about this man or his family.

Teddie FORBES, pictured centre with the violin.

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Born: Edward Stanley FORBES, 9th December 1901, Folkestone, Kent
Married: 1917-1922
Died: after 1937

Parents
FOBRES, Edward Willes (b.4th Feb 1863, Folkestone, d.25th Apr 1922, Folkestone, Kent)
HORE, Clara (b.7th Feb 1860, Three Burrows, Cornwall, d.23rd Feb 1925, Folkestone, Kent).

Siblings
FORBES, Thomas John (b.22nd Dec 1887, Folkestone, Kent; d.20th Apr 1937, Chatham, Kent)
FORBES, Edward James (b.23rd Jan 1891, Folkestone, Kent; d.29th Sep 1895, Lambeth, London)
FORBES, Jessie Gertrude (b.27th Jun 1896, Stockwell, London; d.c.1952, Folkestone, Kent)
FORBES, George Albert Edward (b.1st Apr 1898, Folkestone, Kent; d.13th Dec 1971, Folkestone, Kent).

Spouse
Thought to be: MURRAY, Grace (possibly a stage-name) - a singer.
It's thought that Teddie's wife was older than he was, and she might have been married before.

Children
Thought to have had a son and a daughter, possibly with the surname MURRAY-FORBES.

Misc. Biographical Information
1922: mentioned with his wife in his father's obit. as "Mr & Mrs Murray Forbes (son and daughter-in-law)".
1927-1933: appears, playing his violin, in a holiday cine film taken by his brother in Cornwall.
1937: sent flowers to his brother's funeral.
Teddie ran the orchestra for the cinema in Sandgate at some time between the wars.
He was a professional violinist, at some time working for agencies in London.

Please email forbes@gensite.co.uk if you know anything about this man or his family.


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