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  • Abigail Burnett (1666 - 1698)
  • Abrahm B. Nanweshmah Burnett (1812 - 1870)
    His name was Charles Smith , a lawyer and Senator of Virginia. The face belongs to Gordon Smith, a large man plagued with pain/Residential School System affect. GORDON SMITH - SON OF WILLIAM GRAY SMITH...
  • Agnes Moir (1629 - 1686)
    Find-a-Grave Memorial #121286881, located at: and ANDREW BURNET, brothers, Burgesses of Aberdeen d 13 Sept 1644. ALEXANDER BURNET baillie of Aberdeen son to Thomas d 29 Apr 1685, sicklytes AGNES MOIR h...
  • Sir Alexander Burnett, 12th of Leys (1560 - 1619)
    Wikipedia biographical summary==" Alexander Burnett of Leys (died 5 July 1619) was the Laird of Crathes Castle in the late 16th and early 17th century, being credited for the completion of Crathes in 1...
  • Alexander Burnett, 1st baron, 6th of Ley (c.1419 - 1505)
    Was rewarded with Banchory as a free barony in 1488 by fighting for James III.Laird from 1454 to 1505.==links==* (membership required to view without interruption)Wikipedia: Alexander Burnet of Leys wa...

About the Burnett surname

From Stirnet's "Burnett01" page: "This family was in England before the Conquest and so was probably of Saxon origin. It achieved some importance in Wiltsthire, Bedfordshire, etc.. The first known was ... <Burnard, who was alive in 1086.>"

Also from Stirnet's "Burnett01" page: "The branch of this family that we focus on in this page <Burnard/Burnet/Burnett of Leys> was descended from a descendant of one of the above, possibly the last Roger <a second great grandson of the aforementioned Burnard>, who settled in Scotland in the 12th century. The first on record of this branch was ... <Alexander Burnard, who was alive in 1323.>"

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