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Anna first met Burns when she was only 21 [7] and, following an adulterous affair with the poet, gave birth on 31 March 1791 [8] to Robert Burns's daughter Elizabeth 'Betty' Burns [2] [9] just a few days before his wife Jean Armour gave birth to his legitimate son William Nicol Burns.
Frances was the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Wallace of Cragie of that Ilk, 26th Chief of Clan Wallace and his wife Dame Eleanore Agnew. [2] She married John Dunlop of Dunlop in 1748, a man twenty-three years her senior [2] and upon his death in 1785 she was left ill and in a depressed state which was only alleviated by a gift of Robert Burns's poem A Cotter's Saturday Night from Miss Betty ...
Jean Armour and Robert Burns had nine children together (he had at least another four by other women), the last of whom was born on the day of his funeral in July 1796. The legitimate siblings were Robert Burns Junior (b. 3 September 1786); Jean (b. 3 September 1786); William Nicol (b. 9 April 1791); Elizabeth Riddell (b. 1792); James Glencairn ...
Robert Burns paid tribute to her as "a votary of the Muses". [1] Riddel was born Maria Woodley, daughter of a Governor of the Leeward Islands. In 1791, she married her first husband Walter Riddell. The couple settled in an estate in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Her husband was the brother to a patron of Robert Burns.
Modern English translations of poems by Robert Burns; Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, p. 57; Robert Burns Archived 7 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine at the British Library; To Robert Burns historical marker near Burns Cottage in Atlanta, Georgia
Mary Campbell, also known as Highland Mary [3] (christened Margaret, March 1763 [1] – 1786), was the daughter of Archibald Campbell of Daling, a sailor in a revenue cutter, [4] whose wife was Agnes Campbell of Achnamore or Auchamore.
Janet, Jennie or Jenny Clow was a domestic servant to Mrs Agnes Maclehose, née Craig (1759-1841), the Clarinda to Robert Burns' Sylvander. [2] She was the daughter of Andrew (or Alexander [3]) Clow and Margaret Inglis [3] from Fife and was the youngest of eight children.
Robert Burns was a close friend of Dr James McCandlish, or Candlish, the blacksmith's son and they had been classmates. [6] Jean, the Sister of James Smith of Mauchline, Burns's close friend, married James Candlish.