Genealogical memoirs of the family of Robert Burns and of the Scottish house of Burnes

THE FAMILY OF ltOBEKT BURNS. !)
" Imp. (a ffyr) hou.ss, consisting off tlnie couplles, flour
horses, two taill postes, ane midle wall with ane post Atom
the ground, with ane rooff, two pares in the syd, with ane
door bandet, locked, and bared, and with ane window off two
lightes, bradet, bandet, and snecked, with ane lourne, all to
be sufficient.
Item, ane barne, consisting of ffyve couplles, four horses,
two taill postes, ane rooff, thrie pares in the syd, with ffor
door locked and bandet, and back door bared and steepled,
all to be sufficient.
Item, ane byre, consisting of four couplles, two in the syd,
ane rooff, with door and door cheikes bandet, all to be suffi-
cient.
" It is declared be both parties that if ther be no other
inventur ffound betwixt this and Whytsonday nixt, 1706
years, that shall be ane tr(ue) inventur off the said William
Burness at his removell from the said romn. In witness
. . . beffor these witnesses — Eobt. Middletoun in Broom-
bank, and David Watson in Polburn, wryter hereoff.
" E. Midletone, Witncs. Will. Stuakt.
"D. Watson, Witncs and Wrytr. 1705.
"W. B."
James Burnes, farmer at Inches, son of William Burnes,
tenant at Bogjorgan, married Helen, daughter of George
Burnes, in Elf hill ; he died without issue.
William Burnes, second in Bogjorgan, married Elspet
Taylor, by whom he had a son, William, and two daughters,
Christian and Elspet. Christian married James Kerr, and
Elspet married William Taylor, tenant in Whitebog.
William Burnes, third in Bogjorgan, married Helen,
daughter of William Thomson, merchant, Drumlithie, parish
of Fordoun ; he died in 1784, in his sixty-fifth year; his wife
died in 1779. He had four sons, William, James, Robert,