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Description: | William Burnes ((1721-84) was born in the north east of Scotland in Kincardineshire and trained as a gardener. He moved south obtaining work as he travelled, eventually settling in Alloway in 1757. He married a local girl named Agnes Broun and had 7 children the eldest being Robert Burns, the poet.
This character reference is one of the Burnes family documents on display in the Burns Cottage Museum, Alloway.
This certificate of good character of William Burnes was written by 2 of his employers Sir William Ogilvy and John Stewart in 1748. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1748-01-01 - 1748-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Certificate of Good Character to William | Go to resource |
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