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

128 THE FAMILY OF BURNETT OF LEYS.
III. CHRISTIAN, born 1 7th October, 1 789; died, unmarried, 9th May, 1874.
IV. LAMONT, born 2nd June, 1791 ; died, unmarried, 27th September,
1842.
He died 3oth December, 1802.
V.
JOHN BURNETT OF KEMNAY, father of the present proprietor, did
much by judicious improvements and encouragement of his tenantry to
increase the value of his property, and by the extensive woods which he
planted added greatly to its amenity.
He married, in 1814, Mary (who died March I, 1872), daughter of
Charles Stuart, of Dunearn, Co. Fife, and died 22nd of December, 1847,
having six sons and two daughters
I. ALEXANDER GEORGE, born 6th November, 1 8 16, the present
proprietor.
II. CHARLES JOHN, born i8th August, 1820.
III. GEORGE, born 9th March, 1822, admitted to the Scottish bar 1845,
appointed Lyon King of Arms 1866; married, at Dresden, I3th
August, 1870, his cousin Alison, daughter of John Alexander
Stuart, son of Charles Stuart of Dunearn, and has a son, John
George [now of Powis, Aberdeenshire], born 3Oth March, 1876,
and a daughter Alice Christina, born I9th September, 1874.
IV. STUART MOUBRAY, born $th July, 1824; died, unmarried, 9th
January, 1893.
V. HENRY MARTYN, born 2nd April, 1826; died i2th July, 1881.
VI. ERSKINE WILLIAM, born i6th December, 1828; died, unmarried,
3 ist October, 1848.
I. MARY ERSKINE, born 5th May, 1815 ; died 25th April, 1890.
II. CHRISTINA LESLIE, born ist September, 1818; died, unmarried,
20th October, 1866.
VI.
ALEXANDER GEORGE OF KEMNAY, the present proprietor, succeeded
his father in 1847. He married, 4th September, 1849, Letitia Amelia