William Nicol Burns
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William Nicol Burns was the sixth child, third born and second surviving son born to the poet Robert Burns when he was 32 and his wife Jean Armour was 26. William was born at Ellisland Farm in Dunscor
Colonel William Nicol Burns. Circa 1855
Details from the Burns Family Bible
Maxwell's birth entry in the Burns family Bible.
Addiscombe Seminary Cadets.
Robert Burns Junior
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Robert Burns Junior or Robert Burns ll was the first son and one of the first pair of twins born to the poet Robert Burns and his wife Jean Armour. He was born on the 3 September 1786 and baptised on
William Nicol Burns
…the painting, chasing a cat's tail: "the most striking likeness of an ill-deedie, damn'd, wee, rumble-garie hurchin of mine". William's siblings were Robert Burns Junior (b. 3 March 1788); Jean (b. 3 March 1788); James Glencairn (b. 12 August 1794); Elizabeth Riddell (b. 21 November 1792); Francis Wallace (b. 1789) and…
Robert Burns Junior
Mauchline in Robert Burns Junior's day
Somerset House in the Strand, 1809, London.
Burns Memorial, Alloway in 1903.