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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National Poet was born in a small cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire the son of a market gardener who feued 7 acres locally. In a short period the farmer poet composed a wealth of songs and poems. He died of heart disease in Dumfries at the early age of 37 years.
The spoon is on display in the Burns Cottage Museum, Alloway.
The wedding spoon shown belonged to Isabella (Tibbie) Stein whose father farmed near Burns at Lochlie, Ayrshire. She is the supposed heroine of Burns' song 'O Tibbie I hae seen the day'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1780-01-01 - 1800-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Wedding Spoon, which belonged to Tibbie | Go to resource |
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