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Description: | William Burnes came to Ayrshire from his native Kincardinshire about 1750. He feued a 7.5 acre plot in Alloway for a market garden in 1756 and on December 15th 1757, married Agnes Broun, daughter of a Kirkoswald farmer, and went to live in the two roomed thatched cottage he had built on the plot in Alloway.
A knitting guard is a tool which was used by knitters to keep the wool and needles in position when work stopped on a garment under construction.
This knitting guard is said to have belonged to Agnes Broun mother of the poet Robert Burns. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1750-01-01 - 1750-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Knitting Guard which belonged to Agnes B | Go to resource |
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