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Robert Burns History<\/h1>\n

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Robert Burns:<\/h2>\n

Scotland’s Bard, A Life in the Rhyme and Rhythm of the Land<\/h2>\n

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Ah,<\/span> Rabbie Burns!<\/span> The name evokes images of kilts swirling at ceilidhs,<\/span> the smoky warmth of a haggis supper,<\/span> and the heartfelt crooning of “Auld Lang Syne” on New Year’s Eve.<\/span> But who was the man behind the legend?<\/span> What was his families life like before the young Burns came into the world and what formed him into the young man that wrote all the poems and songs that have become synonymous with Scotland itself?<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Burns<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in a humble cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire, on 25th January 1759, Burns’ life began surrounded by the rolling hills and rugged beauty of the Scottish countryside.<\/p>\n

The Burns story begins however with his father, William Burnes who was born in 1721 at Clochnahill, in the parish of Dunottar, Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n

Farming on the East coast of Scotland proved to be a hard way of life, and harsh weather and prolonged wet weather led to crop failure and famine. A combination of political and agricultural factors and a father\u2019s wish for a better way of life for his family, led William to be trained as a gardener at Inverugie Castle, near Peterhead.<\/p>\n

On the 9th\u00a0May 1748, William Burnes was in possession of a letter from three lairds in Kincardineshire testifying to his good character and asserting that the young Burnes had played no part in the \u201cwicked rebellion\u201d.<\/p>\n

William made his way to Edinburgh, securing work as a gardener on the Hope Estate. Eager to improve himself, he made his way to Ayrshire with a letter of recommendation, where he was hired as a gardener to the Laird of Farlie.<\/p>\n

He met Agnes Brown at the annual Maybole fair in 1756 and he immediately feel in love with her and his avowed intent was to make her his wife.\u00a0 \u00a0William and Agnes were married on the 15th \u00a0December 1757.<\/p>\n

\u2018He\u2019s a fool who marries in Yule, for when the bairn\u2019s to bear, the corn\u2019s to shear\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

As we know\u00a0 on 25th January 1759, their first son Robert Burns was born, the first of a family of seven children.<\/p>\n

Together they instilled in young Robert a deep love for learning and the natural world.<\/p>\n

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The Bard – Robert burns 1759 -1796<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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\"FatherRobert Burns was born on the 25th Jan 1759 in Alloway and severe weather blew in the gable of the house which his father William Burnes had built with his own hands.<\/p>\n

(The Words from Burns’ Poem, (Rantin\u2019 Rovin\u2019 Robin) Describing his own Entry to the World)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Our monarch\u2019s hindmost year but ane<\/em><\/p>\n

Was five and twenty days begun<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Twas then a blast o\u2019 Janwar win\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Blew hansel in on Robin <\/em><\/p>\n

Robert moved with his family to Mount Oliphant in 1766, and under the tuition of John Murdoch, organised by his father, Robert became a keen reader.<\/p>\n

Robert and his brother Gilbert attended school in Dalrymple in 1772 to improve their handwriting.<\/p>\n

In 1780 Robert and his brother Gilbert formed a debating society, The Batchelor\u2019s Club, in Tarbolton.\u00a0 A club on which Montrose Burns Club modelled itself upon when founded in 1909.<\/p>\n

Robert\u2019s father died in 1784 and Robert and Gilbert took over the lease of a new farm, Mossgeil, in Mauchline.<\/p>\n

In 1786 John Wilson of Kilmarnock published 600 copies of \u201cPoems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect\u201d, known as The Kilmarnock Edition.<\/p>\n

This launched Burns, and in 1787 he became lauded by the gentry of Edinburgh for his poetical works and recitation. He embarked upon a Scottish tour which included the places, farms and relatives of his ancestors in Kincardineshire. He spent a night in the Boar\u2019s Head Inn, Laurencekirk, stopped to water his horse at Hillside, stayed the night in Montrose and travelled through Arbroath on his return journey to Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

The \u201cSecond Edinburgh Edition\u201d of his work was published in 1793.<\/p>\n

Robert became ill during 1796 with rheumatic fever, and died aged just 37 on 21st\u00a0 July. He was buried on the 25th July in Dumfries.\u00a0 On that day, Jean Armour gave birth to their ninth child Maxwell, named after the physician who looked after Robert. The funeral took place with full military honours, and a crowd of over 10,000 people lined the streets to bid farewell to the ploughman poet.<\/p>\n

1817 \u2013 His body was moved to a mausoleum in St Michel\u2019s Kirkyard, Dumfries, where his wife Jean and six of his children are also interred.<\/p>\n

2009 \u2013 The Year of the Homecoming was a national celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns and in September of that year, was also the year that local Burns clubs gathered at his commemorative plaque in Hillside.<\/p>\n

2012 \u2013 A new commemorative storyboard was unveiled alongside the original stone plaque, to commemorate the four men of Hillside who installed the original plaque in 1930, C.J. Shaw Superintendent of Sunnyside Hospital, Joseph Harris and Willie Herd, ward orderlies, and Adam Christie \u201cThe Gentle Shetlander\u201d who sculpted the plaque and was a patient in Sunnyside at that time.<\/p>\n

Burns’ life was a tapestry woven with love and loss, laughter and tears. He had numerous romantic relationships, including his tumultuous love affair with Jean Armour, whom he eventually married in 1788. Theirs was a passionate but complicated union, tested by societal pressures and Burns’ own struggles with financial hardship and ill health<\/p>\n

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William Burnes’ Life<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\"TheIn 1764 William appointed John Murdoch as tutor to Robert and his younger brother Gilbert.<\/p>\n

As the family grew, and outgrew their original home, and with financial support from his employer, William Burness took on the lease of a farm at Mount Oliphant in 1766.<\/p>\n

The family moved to the farm of Lochlea in 1777, which was to lead to a troubled time with poor land, an expanding family and overstretched financially. The death of his benefactor saw the appointment of a factor for the estate who had a harsh and clear objective about the repayment of debts outstanding.<\/p>\n

This saw William Burnes plunged into legal arguments about the conditions of his lease, and the subsequent stress and strain upon the whole family became intolerable.<\/p>\n

The latter years of William\u2019s life were an unhappy mix of hardship, worry, litigation and failing health. On 13th<\/sup> February 1784, William Burnes died from consumption with his family around him, and with Rober being his final source of concern. \u201cThere is only one of you all I am afraid for\u201d were his dying words.<\/p>\n

The funeral procession left Lochlea Farm, and travelled on foot for the eight mile journey to the old Kirkyard at Alloway, where he was finally laid to rest.<\/p>\n

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Epitaph On my Ever Honoured Father<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cO ye whose cheek the tear of pity stains,<\/em><\/p>\n

Draw near with pious rev\u2019rence, and attend!<\/em><\/p>\n

Here lie the loving husband\u2019s dear remains,<\/em><\/p>\n

The tender father, and the gen\u2019rous friend;<\/em><\/p>\n

The pitying heart that felt for human woe,<\/em><\/p>\n

The dauntless heart that fear\u2019d no human pride;<\/em><\/p>\n

The friend of man \u2013 to vice alone a foe;<\/em><\/p>\n

For \u201cev\u2019n his failing lean\u2019d to virtue\u2019s side\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Robert Burns<\/p>\n

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Paralell Lives-The Father of the Bard<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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The ancestors of Robert Burns, with variations of the name Burnes, Burness, Burnace, Bernice, were recorded as early as 1547 in Kincardineshire, in the Howe o\u2019 the Mearns and the ancestral graves can be seen in the Glenbervie kirkyard.<\/p>\n

The Father of the Bard Project was the only Scottish Homecoming event to celebrate the lives of both father and son.<\/p>\n

This remarkable story began only a few miles from where you are standing now, and the Father of the Bard Project has raised the awareness of the importance of Kincardineshire as being the Fatherland of Burns, and the major part it played in subsequent development of the life and work of the poet, Robert Burns.<\/p>\n

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