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Sir Thomas Burnett of Leys, 3rd Bt and 15th Laird painted by John Scougal. the coat of arms of James Comyn Amherst Burnett of Leys, Chief of the Name and Arms of Burnett, Baron of Leys and Kilduthie. [17] Alexander Burnard, almost certainly of Farningdoun, is considered "The first of the Deeside Burnards, or Burnetts as they were later called". [9]
The Burnett Baronetcy, of Selborne House in the County Borough of Croydon, [1] was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 17 October 1913 for Sir David Burnett, Lord Mayor of London between 1912 and 1913. As of 2010 the title is held by his great-grandson, the fourth Baronet, who succeeded his father in 2002.
The Family of Burnett of Leys, (with collateral branches), by George Burnett, Lord Lyon King of Arms, Aberdeen, 1901, pps: 78 - 86. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage , edited by Peter Townend, 105th edition, London, 1970, p.
The eldest surviving son of Alexander Burnett of Leys and Katherine, eldest daughter of Alexander Gordon of Lesmoir, "Thomas Burnaetus de Leyes" appears in the records of King's College, Aberdeen and Aberdeen University, as a student who matriculated in 1603. In 1604 and 1606 when he was a witness to sasines he is designed as his father's "son ...
Catherine Ramsay married Sir Thomas Burnett of Leys, 6th Baronet, and their eldest son, Robert, inherited the Burnett baronetcy, while their second son, Alexander Burnett, was his maternal uncle's namesake and heir. Sir Alexander Ramsay, 6th Baronet bequeathed his estates to his nephew and the baronetcy was revived in favour of Burnett a few ...
Crathes sits on land given as a gift to the Burnetts of Ley family by King Robert the Bruce in 1323. [1] Crathes castle. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Burnett of Leys built a fortress of timbers on an island they made in the middle of a nearby bog. This method of fortification, known as a crannog, was common in the Late Middle Ages.
The structure was generally associated with the Burnett of Leys family. The property itself was owned by the Barclay family from the 13th century, at which time a tower house structure was erected. In 1593, the Laird was James Strachan, and thence it passed into the Irvine family and thereafter the Burnetts of
Burnett, George, The Family of Burnett of Leys edited by J. Allardyce, New Spalding Club, Aberdeen (1901) Bryce, Ian B.D., Leopard Magazine, Number 31, July/August 1977, pp 24–26, Castle of the Month; Hobbs, Catherine (2002). Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac, Monboddo. SIU Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2469-9.
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