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Description: | Page two is devoted to the inclusion of an obituary notice which Gilbert Burns has written on the death of his Mother. This he asks his sister in law Jean to cut out and send to the Dumfries newspaper in the person of a Mr MacDiarmid.
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.
The torn remnant of the page can be seen and so we can conclude that his request was fulfilled although the content of the notice can no longer be deduced. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1820-01-01 - 1820-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Gilbert Burns to Mrs Robert Bu | Go to resource |
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