GARDINE, Janet of Gardine

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Janet married Alexander BURNET 8th of Leys, son of Alexander BURNET 7th of Leys and Elizabeth FORBES, before 1481. (Alexander BURNET 8th of Leys was born about 1459 and died by October 1529 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Alexander Burnet of Leys (1505-1529), son of the last, is found in inquests and on services in his father's lifetime in 1493, 1495, and 1498 (Antiq. Ab. Banff, III., 301, 335 ; IV., 78). Before 1481 he was married to Janet Gardine, and had from his father on 28th May of that year a grant to himself and his wife of Canneglerocht, a pendicle of Leys, of which for some generations it became the practice to put the eldest son in possession. (A crown confirmation of this charter followed on 2nd June, 1481, Reg. Mag. Sig.)....

.... The wife of this laird of Leys, Janet Gardine, belonged to a then flourishing family in Angus, Gardine of that Ilk, who had been notable benefactors of the monastery of Arbroath."

from Family of Burnett of Leys ¹