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.
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.
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
Mary Morison
…sister thought that identity of the 'Mary' of the poem 'Mary Morison' was indeed her sibling. Most authorities feel that the name was used by Burns for Alison Begbie as he called the song 'one of my juvenile works', which he was unlikely to say about a song written in 1784/5 when the Mary would have been a girl of…
Carnell House lodge and gate
Lochlea Farm
The kiln eye at Carnell's lime kiln ruins
The old Carnell Estate lime kiln.