Old Travel Blog Photograph Janet Burnett And Daughter From Fraserburgh Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Janet Burnett and her daughter from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The surname Burnett derives from the Old French " burnete, brunette ", a diminutive of " brun", brown, or dark brown, used of a person's complexion or hair colour, or in some cases of a particular type of cloth. " Burnete " was used in the Middle Ages of a wool dyed cloth of superior quality, originally of dark brown colour, and the surname may in some cases denote a maker or seller of such a material. Early examples of the surname include: Richard Bornet in 1279, in Buckinghamshire, and Cristina Burnete in 1365, in London, England. One Andrew Burnet is listed in the University of Oxford Register of 1546, at Jesus College, and John Burnett was an early emigrant to the American Colonies, leaving London on the " Abraham " in November 1635, bound for Virginia.



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