At Ormiston in East Lothian, in January 1546, he was seized by the Earl of Bothwell on the orders of Cardinal Beaton, taken to Elphinstone Castle, and transferred by order of the privy council to Edinburgh castle on 19 January 1546.
Born in Ormiston, near Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Edward Burd, James Burd came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1747 or 1748 where he worked as a merchant.
Ormiston or 'Ormistoun' is not an uncommon surname, and Ormr also survives in some English placenames such as Ormskirk and Ormesby.
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Col. James Burd, hero of the French and Indian War and local Pennsylvania leader in the leadup to the American Revolution
His early education was at the school of his uncle John Sinclair, minister of Ormiston, Haddingtonshire.
Thornlands began as part of the area then encompassed by Cleveland, and was leased (along with most of the land between Ormiston and the Logan River), to Joseph Clarke.
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The Erewash Sound studios are based at Ormiston Enterprise Academy in Cotmanhay, Ilkeston.
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The station is run by local volunteers from across the borough and broadcasts from studios at Ormiston Enterprise Academy in Cotmanhay.
Only two or three examples, and these of late date, are known in Scotland, among which are the memorials of Alexander Cockburn (1564) at Ormiston; of the regent Murray (1569) in the collegiate church of St Giles, Edinburgh; and of the Minto family (1605) in the south aisle of the nave of Glasgow Cathedral.