NISBET, Francis
- Born: 10 Oct 1802, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland
- Marriage (1): NISBET, Alexander Mason 1
- Marriage (2): NISBET, Ephema on 14 Oct 1705
Francis married Alexander NISBET Mason, son of Francis NISBET Flesher and Euphemia THOMSON.1 (Alexander NISBET Mason was born on 15 Sep 1801 in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland and died between 1846 and 1851.)
Marriage Notes:
(at Saint Nicholas parish Aberdeen in 1686)
"Andrew Burnett, son of James B., burgess of Aberdeen; educated at Marischal College; M.A. (1672); adm. in 1686; deprived by Parliament, 1st July 1695, for not taking the Oath to their Majesties, and for presenting and adhering to a Protestation against the Assembly's Committee of 17th April 1694 for the North. He was imprisoned four days and banished the country. When subsequently he took the Oaths, the Trades of Aberdeen petitioned the Magistrates in 1711 for his restoration, 'threatin if they did not, to enter him by force'; M.D. (1685); dep. by the Presb., 27th June 1716, for praying for the Chevalier during the Rising. Wodrow describes him as 'a very weak, empty, volage (volatile) man, of nae great parts of learning, and just made a tool of to disturb the established constitution.' He died before 1723. He marr. (1) Margaret, daugh. of Alexander Burnett of Leys, and widow of Alexander Burnett of Monboddo, and had issue Robert, born 1692, died before 1723 ; and others, born 1693, 1694, 1703 : (2) Elizabeth Reid, widow of Adam Maltman, merchant, Aberdeen. Publication The Spiritual Anatomy of Man (London, 1693). [The Burnetts of Leys, 76-8.]"
from Fasti Ecclesiae 1
Francis next married Ephema NISBET, daughter of Alexander NISBET Mason and Ann REDPATH, on 14 Oct 1705. (Ephema NISBET was born on 14 Nov 1832 in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland and was christened on 28 Nov 1832 in Haddington Parish, East Lothian, Scotland 2.)
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