Agnes Broun
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Agnes Broun, Agnes Brown or Agnes Burnes, was the mother of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns. Agnes's father, Gilbert, was the tenant of the 300-acre farm of Craigenton, in Kirkoswald parish, So
Agnes Broun's headstone at Bolton Kirkyard
Robert Burns's birthplace at Alloway
The grave of William Burness or Burnes in Alloway Kirkyard
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William Burnes
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William Burnes or William Burness was the father of the poet Robert Burns. He was born at either Upper Kinmonth or Clochnahill Farm, Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, and trained as a gardener at Inverugie
Agnes Broun
…she worked, but she broke off the engagement after seven years, due reportedly to an indiscretion on Nelson's part. It is thought that Agnes first met William Burnes, 11 years her senior, a market gardener by trade, at the Maybole Fair in 1756. Agnes and William married on 3 December 1757 in Ayr, and settled at…
The kirk ruins and William Burnes's grave
Alloway Auld Kirk at the time of Robert Burns, from The Antiquities of Scotland by Francis Grose.