Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... 15. Viscount Arbuthnot. Azure, a crescent between three stars argent. 16. Ramsay of Balmain. Argent, an eagle displayed sable charged on the breast with a rose of the field. 17. Dalrymple of Horn and Westhall. Or, on a saltire azure between two water bougets in the flanks sable nine lozenges of the field. XLV. Burnett Of Shethocksley. In the author's earlier notes on the main line of the family, he mentions other children of John Burnet of Leys, No. X., 1574-75, pp. 28-29, namely: 2. John, married, and had a daughter, Agnes. 3. Andrew, of Shethocksley, married to, and a daughter, Katherine, married to of the Ord. In the manuscript no mention is made of them. Whether Mr. Burnett, who was the most accurate and conscientious of genealogists, omitted them because he was not satisfied with the evidence pf their descent from John Burnet, or whether any pages of the manuscript have gone astray, it is impossible to say with certainty. The latter seems more probable, as the Burnets of Shethocksley were doubtless cadets of Leys, and played a prominent part in Aberdeen city affairs during "the troubles." The family can be traced for three generations. I. Andrew of Shethocksley, mentioned above, married, and had two sons and one daughter. He is probably the "Andreas Burnet" who appears on the Register of Burgesses of Aberdeen in 1619. His children were: 1. Alexander, his successor. 2. Andrew, married, 1647, Isabel, daughter of James Dunn. In 1658, the name of Andrew Burnet, son to Andrew Burnet of Shethocksley, appears in the Register of Burgesses. 1. Margaret, married, 1628, William Moir, son of Patrick Moir of Chapeltown. II. Alexander of Shethocksley married, in 1636, Margaret, daughter of Patrick Skene (son of Alexander Skene of Skene), and...
