Agnes Burns or Agnes Galt was the eldest sister of Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns. She was born in 1762 at the Alloway Cottage in South Ayrshire to William Burnes and Agnes Broun. She did not adopt the spelling 'Burnes'. At the advanced age of forty-two, late for the times in which she lived, she married William Galt at Dinning in 1804 who had worked for her brother Gilbert at Dinning Farm in Nithsdale.
Stephenstown Pond
Stephenstown House in 1982.
Full view of the Naysmith portrait of 1787, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Nelly or Nellie Kilpatrick, Helen Kilpatrick or later Nelly Bone (1759–1820). Nelly was possibly Robert Burns's first love and muse as stated by Isabella Burns.
The headstone of Nelly Kilpatrick's parents
Low Coylton Kirkyard, burial place of Nelly's parents.
Datestone from Millmannoch Mill