BURNETT, James of Monboddo 1 3 4
Other names for James were BURNET, James 2 and BURNETT, James of Lagavin.1 User ID: D678. James married Isobel FORBES on 27 November 1642 in Fetteresso parish, Kincardineshire, Scotland.1 2 (Isobel FORBES was born about 1625.) Marriage Notes: "BURNET James next married Elizabeth IRVINE, daughter of Captain Robert IRVINE and Elizabeth DOUGLAS.1 (Elizabeth IRVINE was born about 1625.) Marriage Notes: "Monboddo, in Kincardineshire, had been in the possession of a branch of the powerful family of Strachan for a long period; it subsequently belonged to the Wisharts of Pittarrow, and after them to the Carnegies. Sir John Carnegie of Monboddo married a daughter of Irvine of Kingcausie, and sold Monboddo to a brother-in-law, Captain Irvine, who is said to have served with Gustavus Adolphus, and commanded a troop of horse at the battle of Lutzen. On leaving the service in which he had been employed, he returned to this country, and took possession of Monboddo in 1633, and in 1635 built the 'Manor Place' on the site of an older building (most likely the keep long occupied by the Strachans). |
1 e-books, The Family of Burnett of Leys by George Burnett, ed. James Allardyce (1901).
2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.
3 e-books, The Thanage of Fermartyn by William Temple (1894).
4 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 8 (1911).
5 e-books, The Irvines of Drum and Collateral Branches by Jonathan Forbes-Leslie (1909).
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