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Description: | Robert Burns gave ��200 to his brother Gilbert 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.
Bell lives a mile from the coach stop at Kirkmuirhill (on the A74/A726 crossing) where the London mail horses are changed, and he mentions that there is a twice weekly coach from Edinburgh to Lanark. He goes on to mention a problem with William who is presumably his younger brother.
Gilbert Burns's daughter Agnes was being taken to Troon for a sea-bathing remedy for her poor health. It did not appear to help much as she died some 2 years later. Gilbert goes on to say that he has stayed with his sister Bell (Isabella) who is distressed and suggests that Jean should visit her en route to or from Edinburgh. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1813-01-01 - 1813-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Gilbert Burns to Mrs Robert Bu | Go to resource |
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