BURNET, Robert Regent of King's College, minister of Oyne parish, Reverend Mr 1 2 3
- Born: About 1560
- Marriage (1): AUCHINLECK, Marjorie 1
- Marriage (2): LESLIE, Marjory 2
- Died: After 19 November 1633 3
Another name for Robert was BURNETT, Robert.4
User ID: L847.
General Notes:
"REGENTS
158 -. Mr. Robert Burnet.
Subscribes 14th August, 1583 ; 15th March, 1585(6). (Gordon, II. 173.) Promoted to be minister at Oyne, 1596."
from Officers and Graduates of University and King's College 5
Robert married Marjorie AUCHINLECK, daughter of William AUCHINLECK of Schethin and Elizabeth CHEYNE.1 (Marjorie AUCHINLECK was born about 1545.)
Marriage Notes:
"Captain Gordon's widow, Marjorie Auchinleck, afterwards married Robert Burnet, parson of Oyne, who figures in Barclay's protocol, 1601, as having a large claim on the Gight estates on behalf of his wife (Davidson's Earldom of the Garioch, p. 242)."
from Gight
(at Oyne in 1596)
"Robert Burnet, regent in King's College, Aberdeen, 1583; adm. in 1596 . app. by presb. of Aberdeen, 11th April 1606, in preaching at Insch, to demit and desire them to provide a minister and a living ; was named by the Assembly Dec. that year as constant Moderator of the Presb., which was charged by the Privy Council to receive him as such within twenty-four hours after notice, under pain of rebellion ; was a member of Assembly in 1610 ; still min. 19th Nov. 1633. He marr. (1) Margaret Leith (see Corrigenda below) : (2) Marjorie Auchenleck, widow of Captain John Gordon of Adiell : (3) Marjorie, daugh. of James Leslie of Warthill and Beatrix, daugh. of Walter Abercrombie, min. of Rayne. [Barclay's Prot.-Book ; Aberdeen Hornings, ix., 135 ; Aberdeen Sas., vii., 101, 103.]"
from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 6)
(at Oyne in 1596)
"Robert Burnett, Margaret Leslie was his widow, not his first wife."
from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 8 Addenda et Corrigenda)
"Perhaps young parsons, in those days, took example from impoverished lords and lairds, who, then as well as since, married where money chanced to come along with the object of affection. Mr. Mill of Inverurie wedded a wealthy widow, old enough to have been his mother, if he had married as young as did Alexander Jaffray, junior. Mr. Robert Burnet, the parson of Oyne, had performed much the same exploit before him ; and figures, in Barclay's Protocol in 1601, as having a large claim upon Gight, on the part of his wife, Marjory Auchinleck, widow of Captain John Gordon. The poverty of the clergy became at length so great a scandal that King James passed an Act, in 1617, raising their stipends to the minimum value of 500 merks with 800 nierks as a maximum endowment."
from Inverurie< 1 3 4 6
Robert next married Marjory LESLIE, daughter of James LESLIE 4th of Warthill and Beatrix ABERCROMBY.2 (Marjory LESLIE was born about 1615.)
Marriage Notes:
"Marjory (Leslie), married to Robert Burnet, parson of Oyne."
from Family of Leslie
"One of the daughters of the fourth laird of Warthill, viz., Marjory, married Robert Burnet, parson of Oyne."
from Inverurie
(at Oyne in 1596)
"Robert Burnet ... marr. (1) Margaret Leith (see Corrigenda below) : (2) Marjorie Auchenleck, widow of Captain John Gordon of Adiell : (3) Marjorie, daugh. of James Leslie of Warthill and Beatrix, daugh. of Walter Abercrombie, min. of Rayne."
from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 6)
(at Oyne in 1596)
"Robert Burnett, Margaret Leslie was his widow, not his first wife."
from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 8 Addenda et Corrigenda) 2 3 4 6
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