Elizabeth Burnett married James Burnett of Craigmyle in 1608.

It is not known when she died but she was still living in 1633 when her last known child, John, was born.

Forebears

Elizabeth Burnett was the (George Burnett, p. 112);

daughter and heir of Thomas Burnet of Craigmyle and Tillihaikie. This Thomas was grandson and representative of William Burnett of Cragour, Campbell, and Tillihaikie, who fell at Pinkie in 1547, ancestor (through a younger line) of the Burnetts of Campbell, Elrick &c. These lines of Burnetts are often alluded to as cadets of Leys, and they doubtless were so, though the compiler has failed to trace them back further than William, who fell at Pinkie. Thomas Burnet abovenamed seems to have acquired Craigmyle through his mother, heiress of a family of Craigmyle of that Ilk, who appear on record in the 15th century as holding Craigmyle directly from the Crown, though they afterwards had the Earls of Huntly interposed as superiors. In November, 1608, Thomas Burnet resigned his lands of Craigmyle, Pitmedden, and the Mill of Craigmyle into the hands of the Earl of Huntly, superior, in favour of his daughter, Elizabeth, and her husband, James Burnet, on their marriage. They had sasine on the 9th of the same month, reserving the liferent of half to Thomas.

In summary, Elizabeth’s father was Thomas Burnet of Craigmyle and Tillihaikie. Thomas’s parents do not seem to be identified, beyond the statement that his mother was an ‘heiress of a family of Craigmyle of that Ilk’. Thomas’s grandfather (Elizabeth’s great-grandfather) was William Burnett of Cragour, Campbell, and Tillihaikie, who fell at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, a catastrophic defeat for the Scots at the hands of King Henry VIII of England, on the banks of the River Esk, near Musselburgh, on 10^th September 1547.