ARBUTHNOTT, Helen 1 2 3 4
- Born: 1657 2 3
- Marriage (1): BURNET, Robert of Cowtoun, Tutor of Leys 7 June 1682(contract) 1 2 3
- Marriage (2): SANDILANDS, John of Countesswells, Merchant, Provost of Aberdeen 3
- Died: Before 9 October 1697
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Helen married Robert BURNET of Cowtoun, Tutor of Leys, son of James BURNET of Craigmyle, Tutor of Leys and Elizabeth BURNET, 7 June 1682(contract).1 2 3 (Robert BURNET of Cowtoun, Tutor of Leys was baptised on 18 April 1620 in Fetteresso parish, Kincardineshire, Scotland 1 4 and died in 1687 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"Helen, born 1657, married first Robert Burnett of Cowtown (contract dated 7th June, 1682), and secondly John Sandilands."
from Memories of the Arbuthnots
"Robert, of Contrin, Criggie, Colpnay, and Muchalls. He was born 1620, and in 1650, as above narrated, obtained the lands of Elrick. He was known as tutor of Leys. By his second wife, Helen Arbuthnott, he had three daughters.
1 Helen, married to Sir Alexander Burnett of Leys.
2. Agnes, married to Thomas Burnett of Glenbervie, and after his death to Sir William Nicholson of Glenbervie.
3. Jean, married to William, son of Sir Thomas Burnett off Leys."
from Thanage of Fermartyn
"Robert .... married on 22nd December, 1646, Jean, daughter of Mr. John Mortimer, bailie of Aberdeen, by whom he had no issue..... His first wife, Jean Mortimer, was alive in May, 1678, but dead before 1682, when, at the age of 62, he married Helen Arbuthnot (after his death, wife of John Sandilands, merchant in Aberdeen). The issue of this second marriage were three daughters, Helen, Agnes, and Jean ; and their father seems to have early made up his mind that he was to have no son, and that his inheritance was to become by marriage the property of the heir of Leys. On 28th November, 1685, when he had been but three years married, and only two of his three daughters had been born, he entered into an agreement with Sir Thomas Burnett, obliging himself and his heirs to pay to Alexander, eldest son of the latter (or, in case of his death, to his second son) a marriage portion of £60,000 Scots with his elder daughter (or failing her by decease, with his second daughter), the said apparent heir of Leys being put into possession of the fee of Leys."
from Family of Burnett of Leys 1 2 5
Helen next married John SANDILANDS of Countesswells, Merchant, Provost of Aberdeen, son of James SANDILANDS of Cotton, Commissary of Aberdeen and Marjory BURNET.3 (John SANDILANDS of Countesswells, Merchant, Provost of Aberdeen was born about 1648.)
Marriage Notes:
"Helen, born 1657, married, first, to Robert Burnett of Cowtown (contract dated 7 June 1682), with issue ; and secondly, to John Sandilands."
from Scots Peerage (vol 1) 3
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