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MELVILLE, Elizabeth
(About 1540-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. ERSKINE, of Drum
2. BURNET, Andrew of Cowcardie, Merchant in Aberdeen

MELVILLE, Elizabeth 1

  • Born: About 1540
  • Marriage (1): ERSKINE, of Drum
  • Marriage (2): BURNET, Andrew of Cowcardie, Merchant in Aberdeen 1

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Elizabeth married ERSKINE of Drum. (ERSKINE of Drum was born about 1535.)


  Marriage Notes:

"He (Andrew Burnett) married Elizabeth Melville, widow of an Erskine, apparently of the Drum family, and was the first of a line of Burnetts of Cowcardie, who can be traced for about four generations."

from The Family of Burnett of Leys 1

Elizabeth next married Andrew BURNET of Cowcardie, Merchant in Aberdeen, son of Alexander BURNET 9th of Leys and Janet HAMILTON.1 (Andrew BURNET of Cowcardie, Merchant in Aberdeen was born about 1532.)


  Marriage Notes:

"He (Andrew Burnett) married Elizabeth Melville, widow of an Erskine, apparently of the Drum family, and was the first of a line of Burnetts of Cowcardie, who can be traced for about four generations."

from The Family of Burnett of Leys 1

Sources

1 e-books, The Family of Burnett of Leys by George Burnett, ed. James Allardyce (1901).

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