The Castle of Leys (1)
My mother-in-law was a Burnett.  Burnett incidently, is correctly pronounced BURN-et in Scotland, while in England and elsewhere, it is pronounced Bur-NETT.  Anyway, getting back to the M-I-L, her grandfather was the laird of Kemnay, and the Burnetts of Kemnay were cadets (i.e. an offshoot) of the Burnetts of Crathes, who are the chiefs of the name.  However, while Crathes Castle has been the seat of the Burnett chiefs since the late 16th century, they are not traditionally referred to as the Burnetts of Crathes, they are properly referred to as the Burnetts of Leys.

What or where is Leys?

You're looking at it!  

The area in this photo between the fields in the foreground and the forestry in the middle distance, and from almost the right edge of the photo to off the left edge, was once a lake, called the Loch of Leys.  A mile north of the Aberdeenshire town of Banchory, it contained an island castle, the home of the Burnetts from the mid-14th century to the mid-16th century.
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