BURNET, Rachel 1 2 3
Other names for Rachel were BURNET, Rachel 3 and BURNET, Rachell.3 User ID: A609 General Notes: "BURNET Rachel married Sir Thomas NICOLSONE younger, Lord (King's) Advocate, son of Thomas NICOLSON of Cockburnspath, advocate and Commissary of Aberdeen and Margaret SCOTT, on 24 July 1649 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Scotland.1 (Sir Thomas NICOLSONE younger, Lord (King's) Advocate was baptised on 19 September 1609 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 3 and died by 30 July 1657 4.) Marriage Notes: "NICOLSONE Rachel next married Sir Thomas HAMILTON of Preston and Fingalton, son of Robert HAMILTON of Newhaven and Janet JOHNSTON.2 (Sir Thomas HAMILTON of Preston and Fingalton was baptised on 23 April 1618 in Prestonpans parish, East Lothian, Scotland 3 and died in 1672 2.) Marriage Notes: (527) Sir Thomas Hamilton .... succeeded to Preston and Fingalton by the entail of 1644 .... He married, third, Rachel, daughter of Robert Burnet, Lord Cramond, and widow of Sir Thomas Nicholson of Cockburnspath." |
1 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.
2 e-books, The Heraldry of the Hamiltons by G. Harvey Johnston (1909).
3 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.
4 GRO Scotland, https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ Legal records - Wills and testaments.
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