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

DEESIDE BURNETTS : XIII. SIR THOMAS. 65
Katherine, married David Scott, factor on the estate
of Craigievar ; and Janet, died unmarried, 1791. To
one of the descendants of Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Gibson,
wife of the Rev. J. W. Gibson, minister of Dysart, the
author has to acknowledge his obligations for leave to
inspect various papers of interest regarding the Sauchen
Burnetts, including the marriage contract alluded to in
the text and given at length in the Appendix.
(2) ALEXANDER, who had a bond from his
calling him second son.
father in 1691
(3) JOHN, who was minister of Cluny from 1719 to 1741,
married Agnes, daughter of George Skene, minister of
Kinkell, and died in 1741, his wife surviving him till
1785.
In his will, to which his widow had confirmation
in 1742, seven sons of the marriage
are enumerated
Charles, Robert, George, Francis, Andrew, Alexander,
and John ; and five daughters Jean, Mary, Margaret,
Catherine, and Agnes. The sole survivor of the sons
in 1791 seems to have been Alexander, who had been
minister of Footdee from 1765 to 1773, and with him
expired the descendants in the male line of the Sauchen
line of the family.
(1) ANNE, married, 1st, Andrew Burnet, physician in
Aberdeen ; 2ndly, Dr. John Gordon, minister of St.
Paul's, then one of the licensed Episcopal chapels in
Aberdeen. That lady had, on I3th' April, 1772, as
widow of Dr. Andrew Burnet and wife of Dr. John
Gordon, sasine on a post-nuptial contract of an annuity
from Clopelle (?), parish of Fetteresso. Her will, to
which her niece, Mrs. Scott, was confirmed executrix,
contains much of the information here given about this
generation of the Burnetts of Sauchen.
(2) KATHERINE, married, before 1732, Robert Calder.
(3) JEAN, married, before 1739, John Lunan.
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