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BURNET, Alexander 9th of Leys
(About 1500-1574)
HAMILTON, Janet
(About 1506-Between 1557/1567)
LUMSDEN, John 4th of Cushnie
(About 1513-1588)
STRACHAN, Agnes
(About 1522-)
BURNET, John 10th of Leys
(About 1528-1575)
LUMSDEN, Elizabeth
(About 1539-)
BURNET, Isobel
(About 1562-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. FORBES, John 3rd of Newe, 'Bluebonnet'

BURNET, Isobel 1 2

  • Born: About 1562
  • Marriage (1): FORBES, John 3rd of Newe, 'Bluebonnet' 1 2

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Isobel married John FORBES 3rd of Newe, 'Bluebonnet', son of William FORBES 2nd of Newe and Isobel GORDON.1 2 (John FORBES 3rd of Newe, 'Bluebonnet' was born about 1548, died on 28 January 1616 in Aberdeen, Scotland 1 and was buried in 1616 in Aberdeen, Scotland 1.)


  Marriage Notes:

"John Forbes

Married Isobel, daughter of Burnet of Leys, by whom he had three sons and two daughters: -

1. Alexander, his heir.

2. Arthur of Culquhanny.

3. John, called 'Blind John.'

4. Marjory, married to William Leith of Newlands, to whom she had a daughter Isobel, who on 22nd November, 1645, obtained by a jury at Aberdeen a certificate of her descent.

5. Another daughter died young."

from Forbes of Forbesfield




"John, the 3rd Laird, called 'Bluebonnet,' had a sasine from Lord Elphinstone the year after his father's death and a charter from Alexander, Master of Elphinstone in 1591. He married Isobel Burnett of Leys, and had three sons and two daughters : Alexander, his heir, William of Culquhonny (see page 388), and John, called Blind John ; Marjory, married William Leith of Newlands ; and Isobel, died young.
John died in Aberdeen, January 28th, 1616"

from House of Forbes

Note:

The second son of yhe third laird of Newe is named differently by the two sorces above.

1 2

Sources


1 e-books, Memorials of the Family of Forbes of Forbesfield by Alexander Forbes (1905).

2 e-books, The House of Forbes by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (1937) Chapter XXVIII Newe.

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