Margaret (Falconer) Burness - Margaret Falconer

I would suggest looking for others as possibilities for her parents. I have looked at the Kintore Papers at the University of Aberdeen as well as quite a few other sources. I wrote a genealogy of the Falconers of Halkerton as well. Alexander, 2nd Lord, married in 1666, so at best Margaret would have been illegitimate. If she were a daughter, he would have settled money on her. Alexander did have an illegitimate son named Andrew, a wright in Lawrencekirk. But researchers interested in Margaret need to search for her and her husband in the Register of Deeds and other sources to determine who her relatives were. Paul Gifford