Transcribed from:The Family of Burnett of Leys with Collateral Branches
From the MSS, of the late George Burnett, LL.D.
Edited by Colonel James Allardyce, LL.D.
Aberdeen University, 1901 Alexander, second son of Sir Thomas Burnett of Leys. Born 3ist July, 1757, he was admitted to the Scottish Bar, and became Sheriff of Kincardineshire in 1779. On I4th October, 1782, he married Elizabeth (who survived till December, 1844), daughter of Sir Alexander Bannerman of Elsick, 4th Baronet, and after the death s.p. of Sir Edward Bannerman, 5th Baronet, co-heiress with her sister, Mrs. Russell, of extensive lands in the valley of the Feugh, including the whole parish of Strachan, of which the southern portion was Mrs. Burnett's........
He assumed the surname of Ramsay by royal licence, and corresponding arms, by warrant of the Lord Lyon, and was created a Baronet of the United Kingdom on 13th May, 1806, as Sir Alexander Ramsay of Balmain.f He died at Fasque on i?th May, 1810, having had the following issue, who, in general, retained the surname of Ramsay, altogether dropping Burnett :
THOMAS, born 24th February, 1786. Captain, 47th Regiment. He married (ist), 9th November, 1816, Jane (who died Nov., 1823), second daughter of Patrick CRUICKSHANK, of Stracathro, and had by her:
WILLIAM, born 1820, who resumed the name of Burnett before Ramsay. Succeeded, by settlement of his granduncle, General William Burnett, to Arbeadie, on the north side of the Dee, and to the southern half of the Blackball estate, extending towards Strachan. Captain, Rifle Brigade ; Lieut-Colonel, Forfar and Kincardine Militia ; married, 24th July, 1854, Anne, daughter of Duncan Davidson of Inchmarlo, and died 6th November, 1865
ROBERT, Captain, 14th Foot, married, May, 1817, Margaret (who died 1840), third daughter of Patrick CRUICKSHANK of Stracathro, and died 2Oth December, 1846, having had issue:
1. ROBERT, born 1818, married, 1855, Susan, youngest daughter of William Fullerton-Lindsay-Carnegie of Spynie and Bogtack
2. ALEXANDER, born 1823, died 1857.
3. MARMADUKE, born 1834, died 1865.  |
