Andreas Burtick

ANDREAS BURTICK

Fictitious Ancestor of the Borthwick Family

According to the tradition of the Borthwick family, they are descended from a Livonian Knight named Andreas Burtick, who was attached to the Court of Hungary. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Borthwick Family reference GD1/1404 He is said to have come to Scotland in the company of Edgar the Aetheling and his sister Margaret. [George Way of Plean and RomillySquire, Scottish Clan and Family Encyclopedia (harper Collins Publishers, 1994, pp. 74-5 for the Borthwick Family] Edgar died in about 1126 Wikipedia: Edgar the Aetheling and his sister Margaret, afterwards Saint Margaret of Scotland, died on 16 November 1093 Saint Margaret of Scotland The Borthwick family are not actually noticed in authentic Scottish record until the second half of the fourteenth century, about two hundred and forty ears or so after the death of the Aetheling. The Scots Peerage