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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National Poet was born in a small thatched cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire, the son of a market gardener who feued 7 acres locally. During a short lifetime the market gardener composed a wealth of songs and poems. He died in Dumfries of heart disease aged only 37 years.
Isabella is buried in the churchyard of Alloway Auld Kirk close to her father William Burnes. The clock was bequeathed to the Trust of Burns Cottage Museum by her daughters Agnes and Isabella in memory of their mother in 1887.
Isabella Burns Begg (1771-1858) was Burns' youngest sister and married John Begg who became a land-steward on the estate of Blackwood in Lanarkshire. Isabella was widowed in 1813 and moved to Bridge House in Alloway where she died. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1887-01-01 - 1887-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Longcase 8 day clock belonged to Isabell | Go to resource |
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