BRUCE, Janet ^{1 2}

   Another name for Janet was BRUCE, Jonet.^{3 4}

   User ID: A685.

  General Notes:

"BRUCE
JONET
ROBERT BRUCE/HELENE SKEENE FR1136 (FR1136)
F
18/01/1638
685/1 40 398
Edinburgh"

from Births and Baptisms ⁴

Janet married Sir Thomas BURNET of Crimond, Physician, son of Robert BURNET Advocate, Lord Crimond and Rachel JOHNSTON of Warriston, on 16 January 1662 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.^{1 2 3} (Sir Thomas BURNET of Crimond, Physician was baptised on 6 October 1636 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Scotland ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"BRUCE
JONET
THOMAS BURNETT/FR973 (FR973)
16/01/1662
685/1 440 60
Edinburgh"

from Index of Marriages




"(Sir) Thomas, born 1638. Physician successively to Charles II. , James II., William III., and Anne. Was author of various medical works of repute in their day, particulariy 'Hippocrates Contractus,' and 'Thesaurus Medicinae Practicae Breviarium.' He married, in 1662, Janet, daughter of Robert Bruce of Blairhill, and sister of the Countess of Kincardine, and had a son, Gilbert, an advocate, and one of the Commissioners of Excise, who married a daughter of Sir William Hamilton of Preston, and had a daughter, Anna - the only child that survived him - married to James Halyburton of Pitcur. Of Sir Thomas' daughters, one, Helen, was married (1st) to William Crawford, younger of Auchinarnes, and (2nd) to Ralph Dundas of Manor (with numerous descendants). The other, Euphemia, married James Robertson, advocate, and P. C. S. (one of the Bedlay family), with issue a daughter Janet, who became Countess of Kincardine, and from whom the Elgin family arre descended."

from Family of Burnett of Leys




"Janet, married, in 1662, to Sir Thomas Burnett of Crimond, eldest son of Lord Crimond, one of the Senators of the College of Justice. She was buried 30 April 1699."

from Scots Peerage (vol 3) ^{1 2 3}