Mary Scotland

From Scotland's People: Old Parish Registers - Births and Baptisms NOTE: can't find William Burn (died in infancy), Robert Burn (died in infancy), Unknown Burn (died in infancy)

• 2 July 1791 birth or baptism of Mary Burn, daughter of Robert Burn and Janet Laing, in the parish of Edinburgh

From MyHeritage: Mary Burn: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950

• name: Mary Burn
• gender: Female
• born: Saturday, 2 July 1791 at Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Scotland
• father: Robert Burn
• mother: Janet Laing
• indexing project (batch) number: C11981-9
• system origin: Scotland-Odm
• gs film number: 1066687

From British Newspaper Archive: Caledonian Mercury Saturday, 29 April 1820 Page 3 Marriages

Marriages: At Jessfield, on Monday, 24 April 1820 [curt.] John Scotland, Esq., W. S. to Mary Burn, daughter of the late Robert Burn, architect. Jessfield House, 232 Newhaven Road, Edinburgh EH6 4JY 55.97889, -3.19278

From A history of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet with a list of the members of the society from 1594 to 1890 Published 1890

John Scotland, of Glendouglas. Friday, 7 July 1815.

Apprentice to (1) Charles Innes; (2) William Handyside.— Son of Thomas Scotland, W.S. Died Sunday, 14 October 1860, aged 69. Married (1st) Monday, 24 April 1820, Mary Bum, daughter of Robert Bum, Architect, Edinburgh; and (2nd) Thursday, 26 June 1851, Anne Catherine Roberts, daughter of Browne Roberts of Ravenbourne Park, Lewisham.

From MyHeritage: John Scotland: 1841 Scotland Census (transcription only) Extract

6 June 1841 Census for residents of Glendouglas, Southdean, Roxburghshire TD8 6PF 55.450730, -2.550650, Scotland

• John Scotland, head (implied), male, aged 45 [born about 1796], in Scotland; Land Agent
• Mary Scotland, wife (implied), female, aged 45 [born about 1796], in Scotland
• Thomas Scotland, son (implied), male, aged 17 [born about 1824], in Scotland
• Isabella Scotland, daughter (implied), female, aged 15 [born about 1826], in Scotland
• Robert Scotland, son (implied), male, aged 14 [born about 1827], in England
• Rachel Scotland, mother (implied), female, aged 75 [born about 1766], in Scotland; Independent means
• Jessie Burn, female, aged 20 [born about 1821], in Scotland; Independent means
• Marianne Thomson, female, aged 20 [born about 1821], in Scotland; Independent means
• Ann Scott, female, aged 25 [born about 1816], in Roxburghshire; Female Servant
• Margaret Turner, female, aged 20 [born about 1821], in Roxburghshire; Female Servant

From The annals of a border club (the Jedforest) by and biographical notices of the families connected therewith by George Tancred of Weens Published 1899 Page 440

Mr John Scotland married, in 1820, Mary Burn, daughter of Robert Burn, architect in Edinburgh, and by her had children. She died at Glen Douglas.

From findagrave: Mary Burn Scotland (1791-1849)

• Name: Mary Burn Scotland
• Born: Saturday, 2 July 1791, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Died: Friday, 2 March 1849 (aged 57), Scottish Borders, Scotland
• Buried: Our Lady's or Hopekailzie Churchyard, Kirkburn, Scottish Borders EH45 9HU 55.633106, -3.126522

From MyHeritage: Mary Scotland (born Burn) Family Trees

• name: Mary Scotland (born Burn)
• parents: Robert Burn, 1751 - 1815, Janet Burn (born Laing), 1765 - ?
• born: Tuesday, 5 July 1791 at Edinburgh, Scotland
• siblings: Isabella Burn, 1786 - 1787, William Burn, 1788 - 1789, Robert Burn, 1793 - 1878, Janet Burn, 1796 - ?, Isabella Mcvicar (born Burn), 1799 - 1881, David Laing Burn, 1803 - 1804, Jamima Syme (born Burn), 1810 - ?, David Burn, 1787 - 1790, 1789 - 1870, Ann Burn, 1794 - 1871, Henry John Burn, 1798 - 1867, Elizabeth Burn, 1801 - ?, Frances Anderson (born Burn), 1804 - ?, Agnes Burn
• marriage: to John Scotland on Monday, 24 April 1820 at Edinburgh, Scotland
• husband: John Scotland
• son: William H Scotland, 1826 - ?