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Description: | Gilbert takes the opportunity presented by a friend journeying to Dumfries to write to his sister in law. Page one brings her up to date with the welfare of Gilbert's children who reside locally James, Thomas and John, who are all well. He refers to his concern for the two Irishmen, these being his two sons who are living in Ireland at the time.
Gilbert Burns received ��200 from his brother Robert to release him from debts incurred at Mossgiel in Mauchline in 1789. He married in 1791 and moved to Dinning in Nithsdale in 1798 for 2 years. By 1800 had moved to East Lothian as a farm manager and in 1804 became Factor at an Estate near Haddington and lived at a house called Grant's Braes. It was here that he died in 1827 having sired 11 children, five of whom died at a young age.
His son Gilbert lives in or near Dublin and gives less cause for concern, but his other son Robert lives in County Clare which apparently is in the proximity of the disturbances, is the one he is most worried about as he has not heard from them recently. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1822-01-01 - 1822-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Gilbert Burns to Mrs Robert Bu | Go to resource |
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