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George Burnett,
the son of James and Christina (nee Eaton) Burnett (BUR00009), was born on 18
October 1864 in Fraserburgh (census, Scotland
Births and Baptisms).
1871
1871 Census – 40 Back Street,
Fraserburgh
James Burnett, 44, cooper
Christina Burnett, 43
Christina Burnett, 16
James Burnett, 14
John Burnett, 12
William Burnett, 10
Alexander Burnett, 8
George Burnett, 6
Catherine Burnett, 4
Thomas Burnett, 1
1881
1881
Census - Fraserburgh
James Burnett,
Head, married, 54, Cooper
Christina
Burnett, Wife, 53, born Montrose, Forfarshire
John Burnett,
Son, Cooper, born Fraserburgh
William Burnett,
Son, 20, Stone Cutter, born Fraserburgh
Alexr Burnett,
Son, 18, Joiner, born Fraserburgh
George Burnett, Son, 16, Druggist Apprentice, born
Fraserburgh
Cath Burnett,
Daughter, 14, Scholar, born Fraserburgh
Thomas Burnett,
Son, 10, Scholar, born Fraserburgh
Edward Burnett,
Son, 8, Scholar, born Fraserburgh
Margt Campbell, Servant, 18 General Servant
1890
The Druggist
found his calling in theology in Glasgow, eventually coming under the influence
of his father in law to be, Revd Robert Howie (Gerrard
Burnett).
(Fraserburgh Advertiser, 24 January 1890, page 5)
1891
1891
census – 135 Mains Street, Glasgow
Elizabeth Milne,
63
Margaret
Dunsmore, 15
George Burnett, 26, F C Divinity Student
1896
George Burnett married
Margaret Howie on 10 June 1896 at Glasgow Kinning Park, Lanarkshire (Scotland Marriages).
Margaret Howie
was the daughter of Rev Robert (“Brimstone Bob”) Howie (1836 to 1918) and
Catherine Coulson (nee Davy) Howie (1837 to 1910). Margaret was born in
Govan in about 1871. In 1891, at the age of 20, she was working as a
missionary, residing in Govan.
Descended from
Covenanting stock, and son of a small tenant-farmer, Dr. Robert Howie was born
in the parish of Kilwinning in 1836, and educated at Irvine Academy and Glasgow
University, where, after carrying off the Breadalbane Scholarship in
Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and seven other prizes, he graduated first
in the M.A. list. A week after receiving licence to preach he was elected
minister of the Wynd Church, Glasgow, his predecessor being Mr. McColl. He
began in 1860 with 110 members, and in three years and a half had a membership
of 750. In 1864 he moved off with a number of supporters and founded Trinity
Free Church in Charlotte Street, which soon had 1,100 members. At the same time
he founded in the east-end and the south-side missions which developed into the
Fairbairn Memorial and Cunninghame Free Churches. Next, in 1872, he accepted a
call to go and found a church in Govan, and the result was the building of St.
Mary's Free Church, which at the time of the union with the U.P. Church had a membership
of 1310, and from which have sprung a number of other congregations. During the
44 years of his active ministry Dr. Howie received upwards of 7,600 into the
membership of the three congregations to which he personally ministered.
At his personal semi-jubilee
in 1885 he was presented with handsome tokens of esteem, and at that of the
congregation in 1897 he was presented with his portrait. Among his many works,
controversial and other, Dr. Howie is perhaps best known for the zeal with
which he carried out the great church-planting scheme started in 1895, which
resulted in the addition of some twenty new churches to the list of places of
worship in Glasgow and its suburbs. He has from first to last been more or less
identified with the providing of buildings for upwards of 40 new congregations
which have now a combined membership of upwards of 21,000. For ten years he was
convener of the Home Mission Committee, and in 1902 was Moderator of the
General Assembly of the United Free Church, which met that year in Glasgow. He
was one of the representatives of that church at the coronation of King Edward,
and subsequently attended the Royal Levee and Banquet at Holyrood, on which
occasion, without previous notice, he had the honour of a personal presentation
to the King by Lord Balfour of Burleigh. On the occasion of his leaving Glasgow
to take up residence in London. Dr. Howie was entertained at a reception in the
Christian Institute, Glasgow, on 6th November, 1908, and was presented with an
address, a silver bowl, and a cheque for £200 from the Presbytery and other
friends.
During the
1840’s, open air Gospel meetings with a Covenanting flavour were taking place
in and around Govan and the founder members of St. Mary’s Free Church held such
services both in the open and in a small hall in Harmony Row, whilst the
building of the present Church was taking place until it opened in 1873. The
first minister was the Rev. Robert Howie M.A.,D.D. who left after 31 years and
died in Stirling on 4th March 1918. His inspired and fiery rhetoric from the
pulpit earned him the affectionate nickname of Brimstone Bob.
1901
1901
census – United Free Church Manse, Kirkden, Angus
George Burnett,
36, Minister Friockheim W F Church
Jean A Shepherd,
24
Martha L Brown,
15
The
church in Friockheim was built in 1835, as a chapel
of ease for the parish of Kirkden, re-using stones
from Dunnichen Chapel. Extended in 1840 to form an
L-plan and reconstructed in 1881-2 by the architect William Aitkenhead who was
a well-known citizen of Arbroath. It is late Victorian in style and became a
parish church in 1870. The tower that contains the entrance has a clock face on
its north and south aspects, the clockmaker being James Ritchie & Son, and
is dated 1885. The tower had its steeple removed in 1950.
Meantime, his three children born up
to 1901 were staying with his brother, Thomas Park Burnett (BUR00005).
1901
Census – Grattan Place, Gowanlee,
Fraserburgh
Thos P Burnett,
31, fish curer
Isabella F
Burnett, 33
Mary Ann Burnett,
30
Victoria C
Burnett, 3
James Burnett, 2
Robert H Burnett, 9 months
Catherine Elrick,
15
Uncle George
outside the Manse, Frockheim
1940
Rev George Burnett
died on 6 September 1940 at Killearnan, Ross shire.