Jean Armour
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Jean Armour, also known as the "Belle of Mauchline", was the wife of the poet Robert Burns. She inspired many of his poems and bore him nine children, three of whom survived into adulthood.
Jean Armour, painted by John Alexander Gilfillan, in 1822
Statue of Jean Armour in Dumfries
Robert Burns
James Glencairn Burns
Elizabeth Paton
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Elizabeth Paton or later Elizabeth Andrew of Lairgieside was the daughter of James Paton and Eleanor Helen Paton of Aird Farm, Crossroads, Ayrshire. Following an affair with Robert Burns she gave birt
Jean Armour
…dog away from her laundry. According to Armour's testimony in 1827, she met Burns again at a local dance. By the time Burns's first illegitimate child, Elizabeth "Bess" Burns (1785–1817), was born to Elizabeth Paton (1760 – c. 1799) on 22 May 1785, he and Jean Armour were in a relationship, and by the end of the year she was…
Aird Farm
Aird Bridgend with the Dallars Estate and Shaw Mill nearby
Full view of the Naysmith portrait of 1787, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The headstone of Elizabeth Bishop.