Alison Begbie
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Alison Begbie, Ellison Begbie or Elizabeth Gebbie, is said to have been the daughter of a farmer, born in the parish of Galston, and at the time of her courtship by Robert Burns she is thought to have
Carnell House lodge and gate
Lochlea Farm
The kiln eye at Carnell's lime kiln ruins
The old Carnell Estate lime kiln.
Mary Morison
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Mary Morison or Mary Morrison, may have been the "lovely Mary Morison", whom the poet Robert Burns admired as a girl of sixteen. She was the daughter of Adjutant John Morison of Mauchline.
Alison Begbie
…the tunes of "The Butcher Boy" and "Braes o' Balquidder." Alison may also have been the central figure of the love song "O Mary at thy window be" for Mary Morison, the central figure, is thought to have actually met Robert Burns on only one occasion. Burns called this Cessnock Lass work his Song of Similes and…
The gravestone of Mary Morison at Mauchline
Full view of the Naysmith portrait of 1787, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Reverse side inscription showing that the gravestone was erected many years after Mary and her father's deaths.