The family of Burnett of Leys, with collateral - Electric Scotland

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THE FAMILY OF BURNETT OF LEYS.
duly infcft in Sauchen and Cairnday on a charter by Mr. William
the terms of this contract. Thomas and Bessie were
embodying
duly married in 1648,* and the former was put in possession of
Sauchen, which he held from the Huntly family. There seems
to have been some litigation regarding Cairnday, probably with
his mother-in-law. Thomas also owned Tillicairn, formerly the
property of Matthew Lumsden, author of the " Genealogie of
the House of Forbes," eventually wadsetted to and afterwards
approved by James Rose of Find rack. He seems to have acted
as factor for his father. His two younger sons, William and
Alexander, seem to have died young, and he had a daughter
married to Master Lodovic Gordon, minister of Aboyne.
i. ROBERT, the eldest son, at King's College in 1664, and M.A.
1668, was in 1686 presented by his cousin, the 3rd Baronet
of Leys, to the incumbency of Banchory, from which he was
deposed by the General Assembly for non-jurancy in 1695.
Reponed three years later, he became parson of Fintray in
1699. The same year he became laird of Sauchen by his
father's death, but survived him only two years. Half of his
tombstone is to be seen in the part of Banchory Churchyard
which formed the site of the old church. His male line
seems to have become extinct in the second generation.
By Jean Reid, his wife, daughter of his predecessor in the
incumbency of Banchory, he had issue :
(i) ROBERT, last laird of Sauchen. He had sasine on
Precept from the Marquess of Huntly as heir to his
father in
"
Sauchen, where he is called generosus
juvenis." The same year he married Jean, daughter of
John Barclay in Eslie, He died in 1768, aged 84, and
his widow in 1780. His only son, Andrew, pre-
deceased him, unmarried ; his daughters were Jean,
died unmarried, ist July, 1801, aged 73; Mary, died
!784i aged 85 ; Margaret, married James Martin,
merchant in Aberdeen, afterwards in Rotterdam ;
Thomas Burnet of Sauchen is on 6th October, 1648, witness to the foundation contract of
the Leys bar^