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Description: | Jean Armour was born in 1765, the daughter of a master mason of Mauchline. She first met Robert Burns at Mauchline in 1784, after his family had settled at Mossgiel, near to the town. The actual date of their marriage is not know.
This portrait of Jean Armour Burns shows her in 1822 when she sat for the artist, John Alexander Gilfillan. It was painted by T Corson-Morton in 1915 from the original which is now in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
They had nine children, only three of whom survived into adulthood. After Robert Burns' death in 1796, Jean continued to live in the family home in Burns Street, Dumfries. She remained there until her own death in 1834. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Dumfries & Galloway Council - Nithsdale Museums | Temporal: | 1822-01-01 - 1822-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Jean Armour Burns (1) | Go to resource |
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