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GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS 
 
 AND OF THE 
 
 SCOTTISH HOUSE OF BURNES 
 
 BY THE 
 
 REV. CHARLES ROGERS, LL.D. 
 
 HISTORIOGRAPHER TO THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY, FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY 
 
 OF ANTIQI'AHJKS OF SCOTLAND, FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NORTHERN 
 
 ANTIQUARIES, COPENHAGEN ; MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OK 
 
 QUEBEC, MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 
 
 AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL AND 
 
 GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND 
 
 EDINBURGH 
 WILLIAM PATERSON, PRINCES STREET 
 
 1877 
 
EDINBURGH t 
 
 PRINTED BY M'FARLANK AND ERSKINE, 
 ST JAMES SQUARE. 
 
PEEFACE. 
 
 OF the numerous biographers of the poet Burns, few have 
 dilated on his lineage. Some doubtless felt that his position 
 might not be elevated by any pedigree, however famous. 
 Others may have been content to hold that himself being in 
 lowly circumstances, any inquiry as to his progenitors would 
 be useless and unprofitable. By his biographer Dr Currie he 
 is described as " in reality a peasant." 
 
 "What in respect of descent Burns really was these Memoirs 
 will show. Eemotely sprung from a landed stock, his im- 
 mediate ancestors were yeomen, at first opulent, latterly the 
 reverse. The family had produced another poet, the author 
 of/'Thrummy Cap;" but decided indications of intellectual 
 activity did not appear in the house till subsequent to the 
 marriage of the poet's paternal grandfather. The wife of this 
 person was of the family of Keith of Craig, a branch of the 
 house of Keith-Marischal. From the Keiths of Craig have 
 sprung, among many other eminent persons, the celebrated 
 Ambassador Keith, the Eight Hon. Sir Koftert Murray Keith, 
 and Mrs Anne Keith, a considerable poetess and the accom- 
 plished friend of Sir Walter Scott. Isabella Keith, wife of 
 Eobert Burnes at Clochnahill, was mother of three sons who 
 reached manhood. The eldest was grandfather of Sir Alexan- 
 der Burnes, linguist, diplomatist, and traveller; the second 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 had a daughter pronounced by the poet the smartest of her 
 kin; the third was the poet's father. 
 
 The family name was originally Burnes; it has been 
 variously spelt Burnace, Burnice, and Burness. For a time 
 the poet spelt it Burness ; but prior to issuing proposals for 
 the first edition of his poems in 1786, he finally changed 
 the spelling to Burns, as the name was usually rendered in 
 Ayrshire. Not a few descendants of the house, especially 
 in the north of Scotland, adopt the form of Burness. 
 
 The present work is chiefly founded on ; Dr James Burnes' 
 " Notes on his Name and Family," a thin duodecimo privately 
 printed in 1851, and on entries in the parochial and other 
 registers. Among the members of the poet's family who 
 have afforded willing help may be named Mr Gilbert Burns, 
 of Dublin, his nephew; Misses Agnes and Isabella Begg, of 
 Alloway, his nieces; Mrs Everitt and Mrs Hutchinson, his 
 grandchildren; and his relatives Mrs Adam Burnes and Lieu- 
 tenant Albert Whish, both of Montrose. In many ways Mr 
 Myers, town clerk of Montrose, Mr James Gibson of Liver- 
 pool, and Mr James M'Kie of Kilmarnock, have rendered 
 praiseworthy and important service. Through the good 
 offices of James Cowie, Esq., Sundridge Hall, Kent, an ac- 
 curate account is for the first time presented of the cir- 
 cumstances under which the poet's grandfather, Eobert 
 Burnes, quitted the farm of Clochnahill, an event bearing 
 materially on the latter history of the family. To render the 
 genealogical narrative minute; and accurate, no effort has 
 been spared. 
 
 GRAMPIAN LODGE, FOREST HILL, S.E., 
 October 1877. 
 
GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS, 
 
 ETC. ETC. 
 
 THE name Burns or Burnes is probably derived from the 
 Anglo-Saxon Beorn, a chief, with the affix nes, denoting pos- 
 session. At Burnesburgh, in Yorkshire, Athelstan, in 938, 1 
 defeated the Danes and Scots. Burnes ton-juxta-Ermuldon, 
 in Northumberland, was one of the estates left in 1391 2 by 
 Jacoba, wife of John de Stryvelyn. The manor of Burnes- 
 ton, in Derbyshire, belonging to the abbey of Welbeck, and 
 other places so called, are named in the reigns of Henry VIII. 
 and Elizabeth. 3 Burnestede, in Norfolk, belonged to Beatrix, 
 Countess of Arundel, in 1440; 4 and Burneshead, in Cumber- 
 land, was the seat of a family named Burnes up to the reign 
 of Edward I. 5 
 
 In Domesday Book in 1050 Godric de Burnes appears as 
 owner of wide domains in Kent. 6 In the reigns of Kichard I. 
 and John (1189-1216) are named, in connection with property 
 in Kent, Eustace de Burnes, Eoger de Burnes, and William 
 
 1 Hardyng's Chronicle, Lond. 1543. 
 
 2 Calendar. Inquisit. Post Mort, Lond. 1821, vol. iii., p. 127. 
 
 3 Valor Ecclesiasticus, temp. Henry VIII. , Lond. 1825 ; Ducatus Lancas- 
 triaj, Lond. 1827. 
 
 4 Calendar. Inquisit. Post Mort., vol. iv., p. 197. 
 
 5 Burn's Cumberland, Lond. 1777, vol. i., p. l'2i. 
 Ellis' Introduction to Domesday Book, vol. ii., p. 63. 
 
6 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 de Burnes. 1 John de Burnes, miles, is, in a bull of Pope 
 Nicholas IV., welcomed to Eome in 1290 as envoy of 
 Edward I.; 2 he afterwards appears as sheriff of Kent; also in 
 connection with various important public transactions. 3 In 
 a charter of Edward II., William de Burnes is included among 
 the earlier benefactors to the hospital founded by Thomas a 
 Becket at Eastbridge, in Canterbury. 4 
 
 The name is also at an early date to be found in Scotland 
 " Eobert del Brunhouse, tenant le Euesge de Seint Anclren 
 del counte de Edeneburgh," is twice mentioned in connection 
 with the oaths of allegiance tendered to Edward I. 5 Berne* 
 or Bernis, as place-names, appear in numerous charters of the 
 reign of Eobert the Bruce. 6 To John Menteith, King Eobert 
 granted a charter of the lands of Bernis, in the thanedom of 
 Aberluthnot and county of Kincardine. 7 These lands were 
 afterwards known as Burnhouse of Kair, and from these it is 
 probable that the Kincardineshire family of Burnes derived 
 their surname. A tradition that the original name of the 
 Burnes family was Campbell may rest upon some foundation, 
 but the tradition is too vague to be positively affirmed. A 
 family named Burnes certainly existed in Kincardineshire 
 early in the sixteenth century, and this family, there is every 
 reason to believe, obtained its name from the lands of Bernis 
 or Burnhouse. 
 
 1 Placitorum Abbrevatio, temp. Ric. I. 
 
 2 Rymer's Fcedera, Lond. 1816, vol. i., part ii., p. 740. 
 
 3 Ruding's Annals of Coinage ; Rymer's Foedera ; Hasted, vol. i., pp. i., ii. 
 
 4 Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. vi., p. 692. 
 
 5 Ragman Rolls, 147. 
 
 6 At the north-west extremity of Sanday, one of the Orkney isles, is the 
 parish of Burness ; a lake in the island of Westray is so styled ; and there is 
 ai> estate of the name on the mainland of Orkney, near Kirkwall. 
 
 7 Robertson's Index, 17, 56. 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 7 
 
 Near Burnliouse of Kair lie the lands of Inchbreck, in the 
 parish of Glenbervie. These lands were in 1547 granted by 
 Sir Alexander Douglas of Glenbervie to David Stuart, in 
 reward of his care of the granter when he lay wounded on 
 the field of Pinkie. On the authority of the late Professor 
 Stuart of Aberdeen, owner of Inchbreck, we learn that in 
 1547 the lands were rented by persons named Burnes, whose 
 descendants continued to occupy the lands. 1 
 
 On the 5th April 1637, "John Burnes, servitor," probably 
 factor or chamberlain to Sir Alexander Strachan of Thornton, 
 attached his name at Edinburgh to a deed granted by the Earl 
 of Traquair, Treasurer of Scotland, to Alexander Straitown of 
 that ilk. 2 The lands of Thornton are situated in Kincar- 
 dineshire, in the district of Glenbervie or Inchbreck, where we 
 obtain the first trace of the Burnes family. The name of 
 Patrick Burness, clerk to the Presbytery of Brechin, is 
 attached to a bond, whereby, on the 26th August 1659, John 
 Lindsay of Edzell granted " ane hundreth merks and six 
 bolls of oatmeal, etc," to the "Beader of Loghlie." 3 
 
 In the parish churchyard of Glenbervie four tombstones 
 commemorate members of the Burnes family, farmers on the 
 Inchbreck estate. One of these, in the form of a sarcophagus, 
 elaborately decorated, records the names of William Burnes, 
 tenant in Bogjorgan, who died in 1715, and of the members 
 of his family. On the upper portion of the stone are the 
 initials W. B. and C. F., between the figure of a heart, richly 
 sculptured. Beneath are the words, " Here under lies 
 
 1 Dr Burnes' Notes on his Name, p. 14 ; Jervise's Memorials of Angus and 
 the Mearns, 1861, 8vo, pp. 95-99. 
 
 2 Dr James Burnes, who relates this fact, states that the deed was in the 
 possession of his father. Notes on his Name, p. 13. 
 
 3 Dr Burnes' Notes on his Name, p. 17. 
 
8 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 Burnes, 1715." Then 
 
 follow the initials I. B., W. B., I. B., E. B., with these words, 
 "And here lies his son, John Burnes, who departed the 10th 
 April 17 , being of age 3- ." At the base is the date 
 
 of erection, "1719," engraved between sculptured cross-bones. 
 
 The wife of William Burnes, " C. F." of the inscription, was 
 Christian Fotheringham. Of the house of Fotheringham, the 
 founder proceeded to Scotland from Hungary in the train of 
 sainted Queen Margaret, wife of Malcolm Canmore; the 
 family headquarters have long been Powrie, in Forfarshire, but 
 some of the younger branches settled in the county of Kin- 
 cardine. 
 
 The initials I. B., W. B., I. B., and It. B., on William 
 Burnes' tombstone, seem to denote the names of his children, 
 who had died young. Of these, John Burnes, who is specially 
 commemorated, died at or subsequent to the age of thirty. 
 
 Considerably before his death, William Burnes seems to 
 have surrendered his farm of Bogj organ to his sons, William 
 and James. These, after some time holding that farm on a 
 joint lease, separated in 1705, when William remained at 
 Bogj organ, and James proceeded to rent the farm of Inches, 
 in the same county. The inventory of the home-steading of 
 Bogj organ at the time of the separation was discovered by 
 the late Dr Kobert' Chambers, 1 and, as published by him, pro- 
 ceeded thus: 
 
 "Ane note of the biging off Bogjorgine, belonging to Wil- 
 liam Stuart, heritor thereoff, given up be William Burnasse, 
 present tenant of the sd. rowm, and James Burnasse, late 
 possessore of the halff theroff, upon the seventainth day of 
 Jully, 1705 years. 
 
 1 Life and Works of Robert Burns, edited by Robert Chambers, Edin. 
 1853, 8vo, 4 vols., vol. i., p. 333. 
 
THE FAMILY OF KOBEIIT BUUNS. 
 
 " Imp. (a ifyr) liouss, consisting off thrie couplles, Hour 
 liorses, two taill postes, ane midle wall with ane post ffrorn 
 the ground, with ane rooff, two pares in the syd, with ane 
 door bandet, locked, and bared, and with ane window off two 
 lightes, bradet, bandet, and snecked, with ane loume, all to 
 be sufficient. 
 
 Item, ane barne, consisting of ffyve couplles, four horses, 
 two taill postes, ane rooff, thrie pares in the syd, with ffor 
 door locked and bandet, and back door bared and steepled, 
 all to be sufficient. 
 
 Item, ane byre, consisting of four couplles, two in the syd, 
 ane rooff, with door and door cheikes bandet, all to be suffi- 
 cient. 
 
 " It is declared be both parties that if ther be no other 
 inventur ffound betwixt this and Whytsonday nixt, 1706 
 years, that shall be ane tr(ue) inventur off the said William 
 Burness at his removell from the said roum. In witness 
 . . . beffor these witnesses Robt. Middletoun in Broom - 
 bank, and David Watson in Polburn, wryter hereoff. 
 
 " R, Midletone, Witnes. WILL. STUART. 
 
 "D. Watson, Witnes and Wrytr. 1705. 
 
 "W. B." 
 
 James Burnes, farmer at Inches, son of William Barnes, 
 tenant at Bogj organ, married Helen, daughter of George 
 Burnes, in Elf hill ; he died without issue. 
 
 William Burnes, second in Bogjorgan, married Elspet 
 Taylor, by whom he had a son, William, and two daughters, 
 Christian and Elspet. Christian married James Kerr, and 
 Elspet married William Taylor, tenant in Whitebog. 
 
 William Burnes, third in Bogjorgan, married Helen, 
 daughter of William Thomson, merchant, Drumlithie, parish 
 of Fordoun ; he died in 1784, in his sixty-fifth year; his wife 
 died in 1779. He had four sons, William, James, Robert, 
 
10 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 and John; and seven daughters, Jean, Janet, Margaret, 
 Isobel, Jean, Sarah, and Mary.' Of these William, James, 
 Jean, and Janet died in infancy. Margaret married Eobert 
 Dallas, merchant, Stonehaven. Eobert, the elder surviving 
 son, settled in Stonehaven; he died there in 1816. By his 
 wife, Anne Paul, he had a son William, who established a 
 manufactory at Stonehaven. 1 
 
 John Burnes, younger son of William Burnes, third in 
 Bogjorgan, was born in 1771. After some time engaging in 
 trade, he, in 1794, enlisted in the Angus Fencibles, and while 
 stationed at Dumfries, became acquainted with his relative, 
 the poet Burns. At Dumfries, in 1796, he composed his 
 metrical tale of " Thrummy Cap," which was shown to Robert 
 Burns shortly before his death ; it was afterwards published, 
 and passed through several editions. John Burnes served 
 with the Angus Fencibles till the regiment was disbanded in 
 1799; he subsequently served in the Forfarshire Militia, 
 remaining with this corps till it was discharged in 1815. 
 While pursuing his last vocation, as traveller for a publish- 
 ing house, he perished in a snow-storm on his way from 
 Stonehaven to Aberdeen, on the night of the 12th January 
 1826. 
 
 Besides his tale of " Thrummy Cap," John Burnes pub- 
 lished, in 1819, a volume containing "The Hermit, or the 
 Dead come to Life," a comic dramatic tale ; " Eosmond and 
 Isabella, or the Persisting Penitent," a tragedy; "The Old 
 Soldier," a comic drama; "Sir James the Eose," a tragedy; 
 and "Charles Montgomery," a tragedy. He subsequently 
 published, at Montrose, "The Eecruit," an interlude in one 
 
 1 Statement by William Burnes, manufacturer, Stonehaven, to Dr Burnes, 
 dated 22d August 1834. 
 
THE FAMILY OF llOBEUT BURNS. 11 
 
 act. His various compositions were acted on the provincial 
 stage, the author assisting in the performances. 1 He married 
 Margaret Davidson, a native of Peterhead, without issue. 
 
 Another tombstone in Glenbervie churchyard celebrates 
 James Burnes, tenant in Brawlinmuir, younger brother, 
 as is believed, of William Burnes in Bogj organ. On his 
 
 tombstone James Burnes and his wife are commemorated by 
 
 
 
 the following inscription : 
 
 " Here under lyes the body of James Burnes, who was 
 tenant in Brawlinmuir, who died the 23d of January 1743, 
 aged 87 years. Also, the body of Margaret Falconer, his 
 spouse, who departed this life the 28th of December 1749, 
 aged 90 years. 
 
 "Altho' our bodys worms destroy, 
 
 Our reins consumed be ; 
 Yet in our flesh and with our eyes 
 Shall our Redeemer see. " 
 
 For the farm of Brawlinmuir James Burnes paid a rent 
 equal to 300 sterling. 2 According to tradition, he was a 
 person of great sagacity and shrewdness. He lived at a 
 period when Highland freebooters made predatory incursions 
 into Kincardineshire. On one occasion, when these Kateran, 
 as they were called, were hovering in his neighbourhood, he 
 adopted the precaution of concealing his money in the nave 
 of an old cart wheel which lay in the jaiv-hole in front of his 
 house. The aperture being plugged up, the robbers entered 
 and left the house without suspecting the existence of the 
 treasure they were treading upon. 3 
 
 1 Dramatic Writers of Scotland, by Ralston Inglis, Glasgow, 1868, 12mo, 
 p. 26. 
 
 ~ Dr Burnes' Notes, p. 14. 
 
 3 Chambers's Lii'e of Burns, Ediii. 1851, p. 334. 
 
12 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 Margaret Falconer, wife of James Burnes in Brawlinmuir, 
 belonged to an old and noble house. Eanulph, son of Walter 
 de Lunkyii, obtained from William the Lion, about the close 
 of the twelfth century, the office of royal falconer, with 
 several lands in Kincardineshire, which, on account of the 
 owner having charge of the king's hawks, were subsequently 
 designated Halkerton. By the family was assumed the name 
 of Falconer. Sir Alexander Falconer of Halkerton, a zealous 
 adherent of Charles I., was by that monarch appointed a 
 senator of the College of Justice, and was in 1647 raised to 
 the peerage as Lord Falconer of Halkerton. He is now 
 represented by Francis Alexander Keith Falconer, eighth 
 Earl of Kintore. 
 
 Besides William and James Burnes, commemorated in 
 Glenbervie churchyard, were two other brothers, one of whom, 
 Colonel John Burnes, is mentioned in the Act of 1690, for 
 " rescinding the forefaultures and fynes since the year 1665," 1 
 but of whom nothing further is known. The other, Eobert, 
 settled at Benholm, Kincardineshire; his son Eobert, a 
 solicitor in Stonehaven, married Isabel Meldrum, by whom he 
 had a son, Eobert, who also followed the legal profession, 
 and was latterly sheriff-substitute of Kincardineshire. He 
 married Anne Cushnie. 
 
 By his wife, Margaret Falconer, James Burnes, farmer at 
 Brawlinmuir, had five sons, William, Eobert, George, James, 
 and Thomas, and two daughters, Elspeth and Christian. 
 
 Elspeth, the elder daughter, married Gavin, farmer, 
 
 Drumlithie, in the parish of Fordoun ; Christian, the younger 
 
 daughter, married Crabbie, farmer, Craigniston. Thomas, 
 
 the youngest son, born 1705, died 8th June 1734; his only 
 
 1 Actu Purl. Scot, ix. 16G. 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 13 
 
 child, Margaret, died 24th March 1741, aged eight years. 1 
 William, the eldest son, succeeded his father as tacksman of 
 Brawlinmuir. He married, with issue, but his children seem 
 to have died young or unmarried. 
 
 James Burnes, fourth son of James Burnes and Margaret 
 Falconer, was born in 1690, and died 3d April 1778, aged 
 eighty-eight. He rented the farm of Hawkhill of Glenbervie, 
 but on the death of his eldest brother William, obtained the 
 
 lease of Brawlinmuir. He married, first, Christie; by 
 
 whom he had four sons, James, Thomas, William (first), and 
 William (second), and two daughters, Margaret and Catherine. 
 He married, secondly, Catherine Beattie, a relative of Professor 
 James Beattie (author of " The Minstrel "), by whom he had 
 two sons, David and George. The latter died 16th October 
 1769, in his twenty-eighth year. 
 
 Margaret, elder daughter of James Burnes and 
 
 Christie, was baptized 10th August 1722 ; Catherine, younger 
 daughter, was baptized 3d May 1726. James, the eldest son, 
 was baptized 29th March 1724; he rented, first, the farm of 
 Auchtochter, in the parish of Fordoun, and latterly the farm 
 of Higharn, near Montrose. Thomas, the second son, bap- 
 tized llth February 1729, was many years employed as a 
 gardener in England ; he returned to Scotland, where he died 
 about 1804. William (first), baptized 12th July 1731, died in 
 infancy; William 2 (second), baptized 12th October 1735, 3 
 settled in Montrose, where he held office in the excise. 
 
 David, one of the two sons of James Burnes by Catherine 
 Beattie, his second wife, succeeded his father as tacksman of 
 
 1 Tombstone inscription in Glenbervie churchyard. 
 
 2 William adopted the double s in spelling his name. Burnes' Notes, p. 18. 
 
 3 These dates of baptism have been extracted from the Parish Register of 
 ( Ht-iibcrvie. 
 
14 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 Brawlinmuir ; latterly he removed to the large farm of Bog- 
 head of Kintore, where he died prior to 1830. He married, 
 and had issue five sons and five daughters. Catherine 
 Beattie, the eldest daughter, married Archibald Falconer, by 
 whom she had seven sons, David, Eobert, William, John 
 (solicitor in Stonehaven), George, Archibald, and Alexander, 
 and four daughters, Catherine, Margaret, Jane, and Isabel. Jean, 
 
 the second daughter, married Eeith, farmer, Tipperty, 
 
 parish of Fordoun, by whom she had three sons, David, 
 John, and James, and four daughters, Catherine, Jane, 
 Margaret, and Christian. Margaret, the third daughter, 
 
 married Ley, farmer, Knockback, by whom she had two 
 
 sons, David and James, and three daughters, Jane, Mar- 
 garet, and Mary. Isabel, fourth daughter, married William 
 Urquhart. Mary, fifth and youngest daughter, married George 
 Brown, builder, Kintore. 
 
 James Burnes, eldest son of David Burnes, farmer, Bog- 
 head of Kintore, rented the East Mains of Barms, in the parish 
 of Kinneff; he married, with issue five sons, William, 
 David, Alexander, John, and James, and four daughters, 
 Catherine, Isabel, Margaret, and Helen. George, the 
 second son, succeeded his father in the lease of Boghead of 
 Kintore. David, third son, rented first the farm of Milltimber, 
 and afterwards that of Knockquharn, in the district of Kin- 
 tore. He married Smith, Kintore, by whom he had 
 
 two sons, William and James. 
 
 Alexander, fourth son of David Burnes, farmer, Boghead, 
 was a merchant-burgess of Aberdeen. He purchased the 
 estate of Mastrick, Aberdeenshire. By his wife, Elizabeth 
 Smith, he had a son, John, who died in childhood about 1840 ; 
 also a daughter, Elizabeth Smith. Born in 1823, she married, 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 15 
 
 in 1842, John Stuart, advocate, Aberdeen, and secretary of 
 the Spalding Club. An accomplished antiquary, Mr Stuart 
 was in 1854 appointed one of the official searchers in the 
 Register House, Edinburgh; he was in 1873 promoted as 
 principal keeper of the register of deeds. He died at Amble- 
 side on the 19th July 1877, in his sixty-fourth year. The 
 degree of LL.D. was in 1866 conferred on him by the Uni- 
 versity of Aberdeen, in recognition of his literary eminence. 
 Of his numerous publications relating to Scottish history and 
 antiquities, the best known is his " Sculptured Stones of 
 Scotland," a work in two folio volumes. Dr Stuart was 
 twice married. His first wife, Elizabeth Burnes, died on 
 the 1st March 1848; she had a son, Eobert, who died in 
 September 1846, aged two years; also two daughters. Mary, 
 the elder daughter, is unmarried; Jane Gordon, the second 
 daughter, born January 1847, married in 1867 the Eev. 
 John Woodward, of St Mary's Episcopal Church, Mon- 
 trose, with issue, two sons, who died in childhood, and two 
 daughters. 
 
 John, youngest son of David Burnes, farmer, Boghead, was 
 a merchant in Aberdeen ; he died unmarried. 
 
 George Burnes, third son of James Burnes, farmer in 
 Brawlinmuir, rented the farm of Elf hill, in the parish of 
 Fetteresso. He married, and had five sons and five daugh- 
 ters. James, the eldest son, was baptized 26th May 1729 ; 
 Robert, the second son, 2d July 1730 ; John, the third son, 
 3d June 1733 ; George, fourth son, 22d June 1746 ; William, 
 fifth son, 17th September 1749. Christian, the eldest 
 daughter, was baptized 25th May 1735 ; Elizabeth, second 
 daughter, 27th June 1737; Anne, third daughter, 6th May 
 1739; Jean, fourth daughter, 23d April 1744; and Helen, 
 
16 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 fifth and youngest daughter, 5th April 1747. 1 Several 
 members of the family settled in London. 
 
 James, eldest son of George Burnes, farmer, Elfhill, suc- 
 ceeded to his father's lease, but latterly rented the farm of 
 Midtoun of Barras, parish of Kinneff. He married, with issue 
 three sons, George, Hugh, and James, and six daughters, Mary, 
 Magdalene, Anne, Charlotte, Margaret, and Catherine. Mary, 
 the eldest daughter, married William Fotheringham, farmer, 
 Dub ton, Glen of Cowton; Magdalene, second daughter, married 
 Alexander Mollison, farmer, Mergie ; Anne, third daughter, 
 married John Edward; Charlotte, fourth daughter, married 
 David Taylor, farmer, Collision; Margaret, fifth daughter, 
 married Thomas Mitchell, Chapel of Barras ; and Catherine, 
 sixth daughter, married Andrew Duthie, farmer, Bog of 
 Glaslaw. 
 
 Hugh, second son of James Burnes, settled in London. 
 James, the third son, succeeded his father in the lease of 
 Midtoun of Barras ; he afterwards rented the farm of Cloak 
 of Hilton, parish of Kinneff. He married, and had five 
 sons, Hugh, David, John, Eobert, and James, and three 
 daughters, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Isabel. 
 
 Robert Burnes, second son of James Burnes, Brawlinmuir, 
 by his wife, Margaret Falconer, rented the farm of Kinmonth 
 in Glenbervie, from which he removed to the more consider- 
 able farm of Clochnahill, in Dunnottar. In conjunction with 
 the neighbouring farmers, he built a school at Clochnahill, 
 and aided in supporting a teacher. He married Isabella 
 Keith, of the family of Keith of Craig, by whom he had four 
 sons and six daughters. Margaret, the eldest daughter, 
 born 1723, married Archibald Walker at Crawton, with issue, 
 
 1 Parish Register of Fetteresso. 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 17 
 
 James Walker, farmer in Gallowton, Dunnottar, who married 
 and had a son, Alexander, iron merchant, Aberdeen, and a 
 daughter, Isobel, who married James Knox in Stonehaven. 
 
 Elspet, second daughter of Eobert Burnes, was baptized on 
 the 18th August 1725. She married John Caird, farmer, 
 Denside of Dunnottar, who is named in a letter of the poet to 
 Mr James Burnes of Montrose, dated 21st June 1783, as a 
 correspondent of his brother Gilbert. Of the marriage of 
 John Caird and Elspet Burnes was born a daughter, Anne, 
 who married Henry Watson, with issue two sons, James and 
 Henry, and two daughters, Mary and Elspet. Also a son, 
 Eobert Caird, who married Margaret Melvin, Stonehaven, 
 with issue a son and three daughters. The son, John, 
 married Margaret Henderson, and settled in the parish of 
 Markinch, Fifesliire. Of the daughters, Jean married James 
 Sheritt, Aberdeen; Mary married George Smith of Stone- 
 haven, who settled in London ; and Margaret married James 
 Watson, Aberdeen. 
 
 Jean, third daughter of Eobert Burnes, baptized 24th May 
 1727, married John Burnes, sub-tenant at Bogjorgan; she 
 died at Fetteresso without issue. Isobel, fourth daughter, 
 baptized 18th August 1730, married in 1770 William Brand, 
 dyer, Auchinblae, with issue a son James, who had four 
 sons, Charles, who married Margaret Falconer ; David, who 
 married Jane Falconer ; and William and James. Mary, the 
 fifth daughter, baptized 26th October 1732, died unmarried; 
 The sixth daughter, whose name is unknown, died in infancy. 
 
 James Burnes, eldest son of Eobert Burnes and Isabella 
 Keith, was born in 1717. Trained to merchandise, he in 1732 
 settled at Montrose. Of that burgh he became a burgess on 
 the llth September 1751, and was elected town councillor on 
 
18 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 the 2 6 tli September 1753. Esteemed for his piety and 
 intelligence, he was ordained an elder of the parish church. 
 He died on the 17th July 1761, at the age of forty-four. 
 He married, in 1745, Margaret Grub (died at Bervie about 
 1795), by whom he had three sons and three daughters. One 
 son and two daughters died young. Elizabeth, the only 
 surviving daughter, married, 8th January 1768, George 
 Hudson, 1 merchant, Bervie, and afterwards provost of that 
 burgh, by whom she had three sons and eight daughters. Of 
 these, two sons, George and William, and four daughters, 
 Elizabeth, Margaret (first), Margaret (second), and Sarah 
 Anne, died unmarried or without issue. John, the eldest 
 son, married Jean Forster ; Christian married A. Guthrie ; 
 Anne married J. Pirie, without issue; Elizabeth married 
 Dr Douglas, surgeon, Elie ; and Sarah married Dr Davidson, 
 physician, Edinburgh. 
 
 David, eldest son of James Burnes and Margaret Grub, 
 born 30th July 1749, married, December 1777, Jean M'Bean, 
 by whom he had a son, Thomas, baptized 30th July 1783 ; 
 also two daughters, Margaret, born 5th March 1780, and 
 Jean, bora 30th August 1781: 2 
 
 James Burnes, second surviving son of James Burnes of 
 Montrose, was born on the 24th December 1750. After 
 some years holding office as schoolmaster at Montrose, he 
 studied law, and became a solicitor. 3 With the poet he 
 
 1 George Hudson was of English descent, his father and grandfather having 
 come to Montrose in 1745 with Lord Robert Manners' regiment. His father 
 married Elizabeth, daughter of William Carnegie, convener of the incorpor- 
 ated trades at Montrose Dr Burnes' Notes, p. 35. 
 
 a Montrose Baptismal Register. 
 
 8 On the death of his father, James Burnes some time resided with his 
 uncle William, and in deference to his wish adopted the double s in spelling 
 his name. He afterwards resumed the older form. 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 19 
 
 maintained a friendly correspondence, received a friendly 
 visit from him in 1787, and on his premature death offered 
 to aid in the upbringing of his children. He died at Montrose 
 on the 12th June 1837, aged eighty-seven; his remains were 
 deposited near those of his father, in the old burgh church- 
 yard. He married, 6th January 1777, Anne, daughter of 
 John Greig of Montrose, by his wife, Jean, daughter of 
 Robert Watson of Sheilhill, Forfarshire; she was born 16th 
 July 1749, and died 12th February 1796. 
 
 By his wife, Anne Greig, James Burnes was father of four 
 sons and four daughters. Anne, the eldest daughter, born 
 16th April 1783, died in 1785; Christian, second daughter, 
 born 15th April 1785, died in 1815 unmarried ; Elizabeth, 
 third daughter, died in 1818 unmarried; Sarah, fourth 
 daughter, died unmarried in 1814. John, the eldest son, died 
 in infancy in 1779 ; George, third son, born 30th September 
 1781, died in 1801 ; and Eobert, youngest son, died in 1790. 
 
 James Burnes, second son of James Burnes and Anne 
 Greig, was born on the 1st April 1780. 1 Articled to his 
 father, he studied law and became a solicitor. As Dean of 
 the Guildry incorporation, he entered the town council on 
 the llth December 1817, and, on the 23d September 1818, 
 was elected chief magistrate. After an interval of four years, 
 he was re-elected provost in September 1824; he resigned 
 office on the 2d February 1825, when he was appointed joint 
 town-clerk. He evinced a deep interest in municipal affairs, 
 and having^ early exposed the abuses of the close burgh 
 system, he has been described as the father of Scottish 
 burghal reform. A zealous agriculturist, he was appointed 
 a J.P. for Forfarshire, in recognition of his public services. 
 
 1 Montrose Parish Reg. 
 
ZO GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 He latterly resided at Brunton Place, Edinburgh, where he 
 died on the 15th February 1852, at the age of seventy-two. 
 His remains were deposited in Dairy cemetery, near Edin- 
 burgh, where he is commemorated on a family monument. 
 
 Provost James Burnes married, 22d April 1800, Elizabeth, 
 sixth daughter of Adam Glegg, merchant burgess of Mon- 
 trose, and provost of that burgh; she was born 5th April 
 1779, and died at Edinburgh on the 25th February 1851. 
 The family of Glegg, Gleig, or Glyge, is traditionally of 
 French origin. Adam Glegg, the first member of the family 
 of whom we have any authentic record, was, with the 
 members of his family, commemorated in the church of 
 Marykirk, Kincardineshire, on a tombstone bearing the 
 following epitaph : 
 
 "Heir lyes Adam Glyge, smith in the hill . . . 
 Morphye, some tyme howsband to Isobel Low, who departed 
 the 10 of Awgwst. Adam Gle . . . died in Apil 1698, aged 
 86. John Gleig died May 15, 1737, aged 83. Isobel Gleig 
 died March 4th, 1761, aged 78." 
 
 John Gleig, named in the epitaph, was grandfather of 
 Provost Adam Glegg of Montrose, who was born in 1731, 
 and died at London on the 1st June 1807. Provost Glegg 
 married his cousin-germ an, Anne (born 8th November 1738, 
 died 22d December 1811), daughter of John Smith, provost 
 of Brechin, by his wife, Christian Colvin, one of the three co- 
 heiresses of Alexander Colvin, burgess of Montrose, by his wife, 
 Christian Eamsay, descended from the old family of Ptamsay of 
 Balmain. Provost Glegg is mentioned by Boswell in his 
 " Tour," as having conducted him and Dr Samuel Johnson to 
 the Episcopal chapel at Montrose. 
 Among the descendants of Adam Glegg, blacksmith at 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 21 
 
 Marykirk, were the Eight Eev. George Gleig, LL.I)., Bishop of 
 Brechin, and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who 
 died at Stirling on the 9th March 1840, aged eighty-seven ; 
 and his cousin, the Eev. George Gleig, minister of Arbroath, 
 who died 19th June 1835, aged seventy-eight. Their fathers 
 were both blacksmiths, the bishop's father pursuing his 
 calling at Boghall, parish of Arbuthnot. 
 
 Of the marriage of James Burnes, provost of Montrose, 
 and Elizabeth Glegg, were born nine sons and six daughters. 
 Anne, the eldest daughter, born February 1801, and Margaret, 
 died in infancy. Anne, second of the name, born at Montrose 
 17th August 1808, married, 6th April 1833, at Bhooj, in 
 India, Captain William Ward, who died at Tanna, near 
 Bombay. 9th July 1845, without issue. Elizabeth Burnes, 
 born at Montrose 23d August 1809, married at Bombay, 3d 
 March 1831, Lieutenant-General Eichard Whish, son of the 
 Eev. Eichard Whish, rector of Northwold, Norfolk, and 
 brother of Sir W. S. Whish, K.C.B., who commanded at 
 Moultan. He died at Clifton, 10th November 1854. 
 
 Of the marriage of Lieutenant-General Eichard Whish and 
 Elizabeth Burnes 1 were born five sons and six daughters. 
 Frederick Alexander, the eldest son, born at Ahmedabad 27th 
 July 1833, died at Paunchgunny, India, in August 1872, a 
 retired captain of the Eoyal Artillery. Albert William, 
 second son, was born at Clifton llth July 1843. He is a 
 lieutenant in the Eoyal Navy, and holds office as Inspecting 
 Officer of the coast-guard, Montrose. He married, 30th 
 October 1873, Louisa Emily, third daughter of the late Captain 
 Charles Forbes, of the 17th Eegiment, and widow of Captain 
 T. M. Hewett, by whom he has three sons, Albert Forbes, 
 
 1 Mrs Elizabeth Whish, nee Burnes, now resides at Folkestone. 
 
22 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 born 3d January 1875 ; Cyril Beresford, bom 3d March 1876 ; 
 and Hugh Dudley, bom 7th July 1877. 
 
 Arthur Kichard Lewis, third son of Lieutenant-Gen eral 
 Whish and Elizabeth Burnes, was born at Clifton on the 1st 
 March 1847 ; he is manager of the National Provincial Bank 
 of England, Lincoln's Inn. In 1867 he married Agnes Cook, 
 by whom he has two daughters, Evelyn and Ada Margaret. 
 Ernest Burnes, the fourth son, born at Clifton 12th September 
 1848, rents a grazing farm at Buenos Ayres. Cecil Holland, 
 the youngest son, born at Clifton 9th March 1850, is a lieu- 
 tenant in the Eoyal Navy, and is now serving on board 
 H.M.S. "Agincourt," in the Mediterranean. 
 
 Matilda Emily, eldest daughter of Lieutenant-General 
 Whish and Elizabeth Burnes, was born at Clifton on the 29th 
 April 1835 ; she married, at Clifton, in August 1856, the 
 Eev. Augustus Cooper, Upper Norwood, and has two children, 
 Mabel and Augustus. Eliza Jane, second daughter, born at 
 Clifton 31st May 1836, married her cousin, Major Edward 
 Burnes Holland, by whom she had a son, Alexander, and a 
 daughter, Constance. Flora Thornborough, third daughter, 
 born, at Clifton llth January 1839, married in 1859 Major 
 George Eales, of the 25th Native Infantry, Bombay, by whom 
 she had a son, Lionel, and a daughter, Maud. Major Eales 
 died in March 1874, on his passage home from India. An- 
 nette Isabella, fourth daughter, born at Boulogne-sur-Mer 
 21st July 1841 ; Clara Salter, fifth daughter, born at Clifton 
 19th October 1844; and Kathleen White, sixth daughter, 
 born at Clifton 24th January 1852, are unmarried. 
 
 Jane Glegg Burnes, fourth daughter of James Burnes and 
 Elizabeth Glegg, was born at Montrose on the llth October 
 1810. She married, on the llth July 1833, at Ahniedabad, 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 23 
 
 India, Lieutenant- Colonel James Holland, quartermaster- 
 general of the Bombay Army. Colonel Holland retired from 
 active service on the 14th February 1857; he now resides 
 at the Park, Upper Norwood. By his wife, Jane Glegg 
 Burnes, he is father of three sons and a daughter. Trevenon 
 James Holland, the eldest son, was born at Bombay on the 
 31st May 1834 In 1851 he procured a commission in the- 
 Indian Army, and became assistant quartermaster-general 
 at Bombay. On the 2d June 1869, he was for distinguished 
 service nominated Military Companion of the Order of the 
 Bath. Retiring from the army, 1st August 1871, with the 
 rank of colonel, he holds office as manager of the Palace 
 Hotel. He married in India Margaret Nicholson, by whom 
 he has four daughters. 
 
 Edward Burnes Holland, second son of Colonel James 
 Holland by his wife Jane G-. Burnes, was born at Belgaum, 
 India, on the 20th March 1836. In November 1850 he 
 obtained by public competition at Cheltenham College the 
 commission in the Indian Army awarded by Lieutenant- 
 General Sir James Lushington, G-.C.B. He became major of 
 the Royal Engineers, and died at Bombay in March 1874. 
 He married at Clifton, in 1858, his cousin, Eliza Jane Whish, 
 by whom he had a son and daughter. 1 
 
 Charles Wroughton Del Hoste Holland, third son of 
 Colonel James Holland, was born at Bombay on the 20th 
 January 1845. A stockbroker in London, he resides at 
 Upper Norwood. He married, 25th February 1875, Mar- 
 garet Riach, by whom he has a son. 
 
 Cecilia Agnes Holland, only daughter of Colonel James 
 Holland and Jane G-. Burnes, was bom at Bombay on the 
 
 1 See supra. 
 
24 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 20th December 1846. She married, 3d January 1870, Dai- 
 ton Hardy, stockbroker, London, by whom she has a son 
 and two daughters. 
 
 Cecilia, sixth and youngest daughter of Provost James 
 Burnes, was born at Montrose on the 10th November 1815. 
 She married, on the 12th November 1839, at Bhooj, in India, 
 Captain John Philip Major, llth Bombay Native Infantry, 
 and died at Bombay on the 16th October 1840, eight days 
 after her husband, who died off Gogo, in the Gulf of Cambay, 
 8th October 1840. Captain and Mrs Major left a son, Fran- 
 cis Ward Major, born at Ahmedabad 12th August 1840. 
 Having joined the Indian Army, he is now a captain in the 
 Bombay Staff Corps, serving on the Mysore Revenue Survey. 
 He married, 6th June 1863, Adelaide, second daughter of the 
 late Captain Charles Forbes, of the 17th Eegiment, by whom 
 he has two sons, Francis Forbes, born 23d December 1867, 
 and Philip Charles, born llth May 1873, and two daughters, 
 Adelaide Louisa, born 21st July 1864, and Violet, bora 24th 
 October 1866. 
 
 Of nine sons born to Provost James Burnes by his wife 
 Elizabeth Glegg, Eobert, bom 26th July 1803, William Maule, 
 Edward Phillips, and George Patrick, died young. 
 
 James Burnes, eldest son, was born at Montrose on the 
 12th February 1801. Educated to the medical profession at 
 the University of Edinburgh and in Guy's and St Thomas' 
 Hospitals, London, he in 1821 obtained a surgeon's commis- 
 sion in the East India Company's service. Distinguished as a 
 linguist, he was permitted to explore the countries on the Bom- 
 bay north-west frontier, and his account of the southernmost 
 of the Rajpootanah states, and of the vast dreary tract between 
 Goozerat and the Indus, was much valued. After holding 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 25 
 
 different subordinate offices, he was posted in February 1823 
 to the 18th Native Infantry, stationed at Bombay. In 1824 
 he was, after a competition in the native language, appointed 
 surgeon to the Eesidency at dutch. In 1827 his professional 
 services were at Hyderabad rendered to the Ameer of Scinde, 
 by whom they were highly appreciated. His "Narrative of 
 the Court of Scinde," published in 1829, contributed to his 
 literary reputation. On sick leave he returned to Britain 
 in 1834, when the University of Glasgow conferred upon 
 him the degree of LL.D., and the Eoyal Society elected him 
 a Fellow. From William IV. he received the honour of 
 Guelphic knighthood. At Edinburgh he was entertained at 
 a public banquet, and on the occasion presented with a silver 
 vase with a commendatory inscription. He improved his three 
 years' furlough by preparing a work on the history of the 
 Knights Templars, which was published in 1840. In Decem- 
 ber 1837 he returned to Bombay, when he was appointed 
 surgeon to the garrison. In 1841 he was elected secretary 
 to the Medical Board, and in 1846 was promoted as superin- 
 tending surgeon. With the rank of physician-general he 
 was in 1847 transferred to the Poonah division. In 1848 he 
 obtained a seat at the Medical Board. After a service of 
 twenty-eight years, he in July 1849 retired from his profes- 
 sional duties in India, Before leaving Bombay he received 
 complimentary addresses from various public bodies to which 
 he had been helpful. He had officiated as Grand Master 
 of the Freemason lodges of Western India, and on his depar- 
 ture the brethren presented him with several splendid gifts, 
 and founded in his honour four medals, of which one was to 
 be competed for in the academy of Montrose. On his return 
 to Britain, Dr Burnes occupied a portion of his time in pre- 
 
26 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 paring materials for a history of Ms house, which in a thin 
 duodecimo he printed, for private circulation, under the title 
 of " Notes on his Name and Family." Edinburgh, 1851. He 
 was J.P. for the counties of Middlesex and Forfar. He died 
 at Manchester on the 19th September 1862, and his remains 
 were deposited at Swindon Church, near Cheltenham. 
 
 Dr James Burnes married, first, on the 28th March 1829, 
 at St Thomas' Church, Bombay, Sophia, second daughter of 
 Major-General Sir George Holmes, K.C.B., by whom he had 
 seven sons and two daughters. He married, secondly, on the 
 17th June 1862, at St Mary Abbot's, Kensington, Esther 
 Price, daughter of a landowner in Wales. She resides at 40 
 Ladbrook Square, Kensington. 
 
 Sophia Holmes, elder daughter of Dr James Burnes, born 
 at Bhooj 6th September 1832, died there on the 1st February 
 1833. Isabella Cecilia Holmes, the younger daughter, born 
 at Edinburgh on the 4th February 1835, died there 24th May 
 1835, her remains being deposited in the Canongate church- 
 yard. 
 
 George James Holmes Burnes, eldest son of Dr James 
 Burnes, born at Bhooj on the 9th December 1829, obtained a 
 commission in the 1st Bombay Fusiliers ; he received a medal 
 and two clasps for the Punjab, Moultan, and Guzerat. After 
 a lengthened captivity, consequent on his efforts to save a 
 child from the violence of the mutineers, he was cruelly 
 murdered at Lucknow on the 19th November 1857. In the 
 vestibule of the parish church, Montrose, a monumental 
 tablet, erected by his brother officers, commemorates his 
 valour. 
 
 Fitz-James Holmes Burnes, second son of Dr James 
 Burnes, was born at Bhooj on the 6th September 1831. 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 27 
 
 Entering the 33d Regiment, Madras Native Infantry, he has 
 attained professional advancement. 
 
 Holland Ward Holmes Burnes, third son of Dr James 
 Burnes, was born at Bhooj on the 15th September 1833. 
 Entering the Indian Navy, he died at Calcutta in 1873, when 
 in command of the Feroze, the yacht of the governor-general. 
 
 Hamilton Farquhar Holmes Burnes, fourth son of Dr James 
 Burnes, was born at Edinburgh on the 27th November 1836. 
 He entered the army in 1855, and attained the rank of cap- 
 tain. He retired 14th November 1868, and is since deceased. 
 
 Dalhousie Holmes Burnes, fifth son of Dr James Burnes, 
 was born at Bombay on the 5th April 1839. He became 
 an officer of engineers, and died unmarried in 1872. 
 
 Sidney Holmes Burnes, sixth son of Dr James Burnes, was 
 born at Bombay on the 13th August 1841. He died at 
 London in 1871. 
 
 Alexander Holmes Burnes, youngest son of Dr James 
 Burnes, was born, at Bombay on the llth April 1843. He 
 entered the Bombay Army in 1860, and retired 14th Septem- 
 ber 1867. 
 
 Adam Burnes, second surviving son of James Burnes, Pro- 
 vost of Montrose, was born on the 19th February 1802. He 
 was many years a solicitor in Montrose, where he died, 15th 
 November 1872. He married, first, on the 3d September 
 1827, Horatia, daughter of Harry Gordon, Esq., who died 
 November 2d, 1834; secondly, 18th June 1838, Isabella, 
 daughter of William Scott, Esq., who survives. 
 
 By his first wife Adam Burnes had two sons, Adam and 
 Alexander Horatio. Adam, the elder son, born 12th June 
 1832, emigrated to Australia; he became manager of the 
 Colonial Bank at Melbourne. He subsequently resided in 
 
28 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 New Zealand, and died at Sydney, N.S.W., on the 9th June 
 1876. He married, and had six sons, Adam William Gray, 
 James Henry, Napier Anderson, Alexander Plunkett, Ernest 
 Blair, George Douglas Inglis Scott, and a daughter, Mary Inglis. 
 
 Alexander Horatio, younger son of Adam Burnes by his 
 first wife, was born 19th October 1834. He married Mary 
 Jane Harris, by whom he has a daughter, Adamina Horatia, 
 born October 1872. He emigrated to New Zealand, where 
 he now resides. 
 
 By his second wife Adam Burnes had a son, James, born 
 24th May 1844, died 30th April 1873; also a daughter, 
 Annie Eliza Glegg, born loth September 1842, married, 16th 
 May 1866, John Smythe M'Cay, solicitor, Londonderry. She 
 has a son, Norman Henry Burnes. 
 
 Alexander Burnes, third surviving son of Provost James 
 Burnes, was born at Montrose on the 16th May 1805. After 
 greatly distinguishing himself at the Montrose Academy, he 
 obtained a cadetship in the Indian Army. He arrived at 
 Bombay on the 31st October 1821. In December 1822 he 
 was appointed interpreter in Hindostanee to the First Extra 
 Battalion at Surat, and soon afterwards he was employed by 
 the judges of the Suddur Adawlut to translate the Persian 
 documents of that court. His regiment, the 21st Native 
 Infantry, having early in 1825 been sent to Bhooj, he accom- 
 panied it, and during the disturbances at dutch, in April of 
 that year, he was appointed quartermaster of brigade. A 
 report on the statistics of Wagur, which he drew up and pre- 
 sented to Government in January 1827, was much commended, 
 and acknowledged by a considerable donative. A memoir on 
 the eastern branch of the delta of the Indus, which he pub- 
 lished in 1828, was much approved by the authorities. On 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBEET BUIiNS. 29 
 
 the 18tli March 1828, he was appointed assistant quarter- 
 master-general to the army. In September 1829, along with 
 Major Holland, he assisted the political agent at Cutch in 
 conducting a survey of the north-west frontier, an account of 
 which he afterwards despatched to the Eoyal Geographical 
 Society. In 1830 he conveyed a gift of dray horses from 
 William IV. to Eunjeet Singh, ruler of Lahore, using the 
 occasion, as instructed, to procure more accurate details 
 respecting the geography of the Indus. On his journey he 
 proceeded from a port in Cutch, and to give colour as to the 
 deviation from the ordinary route, carried with him presents 
 to the ameers of Scinde. He completed a survey of the whole 
 Indian delta. 
 
 Under sanction of Lord William Bentinck, Governor- 
 General, Lieutenant Alexander Burnes conducted in 1832 an 
 expedition into Central Asia. Eeturning to Bombay on the 
 18th January 1833, he received the thanks of the Governor- 
 General ; and being authorised to bear his own despatches to 
 England, he experienced a cordial reception at the India 
 House. His " Travels in Bokhara " were published at London 
 early in 1834; the work commanded a large sale, and was 
 translated into French and German. Eemaining in Britain 
 for eighteen months, he received various public honours, be- 
 sides fieing admitted a Fellow of the Eoyal Society. Ee- 
 turning to India in 1835 with the rank of captain, he was in 
 October despatched on an important mission to Hyderabad, in 
 Scinde. In November 1836 he was entrusted with a mission 
 to Dost Mohammed, the ruler of Afghanistan, with a view of 
 entering into commercial relations with him; he reached 
 Cabool on the 20th September 1837. 1 Meanwhile Mohammed, 
 Shah of Persia, had besieged Herat with an army of 60,000 
 
30 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 men, and the Indian Government began to apprehend that 
 Persia and Eussia might unite their forces with those of 
 Afghanistan to make an attack on the Indian empire. 
 From Herat the Persians were forced to retreat, but Captain 
 Burnes requested Dost Mohammed to dismiss the Eussian 
 agent Vicovitch from his court. This he refused to do, and 
 on the contrary dismissed Captain Burnes. Eepairing to the 
 Governor-General at Simla, Captain Burnes was knighted 
 and promoted as lieutenant-colonel. From Scinde he pro- 
 ceeded to Beloochistan on a political mission, which proved 
 unsuccessful. When Shah Shoojah was restored to the throne 
 of Cabool, he was, in September 1839, appointed political 
 resident at that capital, with a salary of 3000. He remained 
 at Cabool not without a sense of insecurity, and on the out- 
 break of an insurrection for restoring Dost Mohammed, he 
 was set upon, and along with his brother Charles and seven 
 other officers, cruelly murdered. This sad event took place 
 on the 2d November 1841. Sir Alexander Burnes died un- 
 married at the age of thirty-six. In 1842, his work entitled 
 " Cabool ; being a Narrative of a Journey to and Eesidence 
 in that City in the years 1836-7-8," was published at London. 
 Possessed of a deep sagacity and marvellous powers of 
 observation, Sir Alexander Burnes would, with a prolonged 
 career, have been, eminently serviceable to the Government 
 of India. He^ opened up the Indus, and extended his re- 
 searches to the shores of the Oxus, the ruins of Samarcand, 
 and other territories which became the scenes of important 
 events. A brief memoir of his life, published by Dr George 
 Buist in the columns of the Bombay Times newspaper, is re- 
 produced by his brother, Dr James Burnes, in his " Notes on 
 his Name and Family." 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 31 
 
 David Burnes, fourth surviving son of Provost James 
 Buriies, was born at Montrose on the 6th September 1806. 
 Having studied medicine and passed M.D., he in 1826 entered 
 the Royal Navy as surgeon. For several years he served 
 on board the "Asia" on the Mediterranean station, to the 
 entire satisfaction of his superiors, but was in 1835 obliged 
 to quit the service consequent on broken health. He sub- 
 sequently became a practitioner in London, but from an en- 
 feebled constitution he was unable to carry out his profession. 
 Retiring to Montrose, he there died on the 2d February 1849. 
 He married, 20th October 1838, Harriet, second daughter of 
 Alexander Anderson, M.D., surgeon R.N., by whom he had a 
 son and daughter. The son, James Anderson Burnes, born 
 30th January 1845, is a banker at Calcutta ; on the 14th Dec- 
 ember 1875, he married Emma, only daughter of the Rev. 
 Dr Jarbo, chaplain of St James. The daughter, Charlotte 
 Elizabeth, born 30th October 1842, resides at Bishop's 
 Waltham, unmarried. The wife of Dr Burnes died 5th May 
 1873. 
 
 Charles Burnes, youngest son of James Burnes, Provost of 
 Montrose, was born on the 12th January 1812. Lieutenant 
 in the 17th Regiment, Bombay Native Infantry, he was mur- 
 dered at Cabool, along with his elder brother, Sir Alexander 
 Burnes, on the 2d November 1841 ; he died unmarried. 
 
 Of the younger sons of Robert Burnes, tacksman of Cloch- 
 nahill, by his wife, Isabella Keith, George, the youngest, 
 baptized on the 9th April 1729, died young. 1 Robert, the 
 second son, born in 1719, was long employed as a gardener 
 in England. Returning to Scotland at an advanced age, he 
 died at the house of his nephew, the poet, on the 3d January 
 
 1 Baptismal Register of Dunnottar. 
 
32 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 1789. He was father of two sons and a daughter. John, 
 the elder son, died young. William, the younger son, died 
 in 1850, at an advanced age. Both were unmarried. Frances, 
 the only daughter, was remarkable for her acuteness, and 
 was characterised by her relative, the poet, as the smartest 
 of his kin. She married Adam Armour, builder, Mauchline, 
 brother of the poet's wife, and had two sons. Eobert Armour, 
 the elder son, carried on his father's business; he died in 
 1854. By his wife, Jean Wallace, he had several children. 
 William, the younger son, inherited his mother's talents; 
 and through his father's brother, Eobert Armour, became 
 opulent. He died at London about the year 1859. 
 
 William Burnes, third son of Eobert Burnes and Isabella 
 Keith, was born at jClochnahill on the llth November 1721. 1 
 Along with his brother Eobert he assisted his father on the 
 farm. But the family were ruined by the terrible winter 
 and spring of 1740, when a general scarcity supervened. 
 The frost, which set in early, continued to the end of April, 
 110 seed being sown till May. The ridges were then formed 
 high in the centre, as a protection against moisture ; and the 
 frost having penetrated far into the soil, and the season 
 being advanced, the sunny side of the ridge was ploughed 
 first, and the other side only when the thaw was complete. 
 Consequent on this procedure, and the continuance of rough 
 and unseasonable weather, the crop was stunted, and almost 
 useless. In Kincardineshire many tenant-farmers were re- 
 duced to absolute poverty. Several farms in the cold district 
 of Clochnahill were, some years subsequent to 1740, left 
 without cultivation. 
 
 Eobert Burnes, and his sons William and Eobert, aban- 
 
 1 Family Bible of William Burnes. 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBEET BURNS. 33 
 
 cloned Cloclinaliill farm, not, as has been alleged by several 
 of the poet's biographers, on account of the lease being granted 
 to another, but solely in consequence of the storm of 1740. 
 This information we have derived from Mr Cowie of Sun- 
 dridge Hall, Kent, who long resided in the district, where his 
 grandfather rented a farm, and to whom the local tradition 
 was confirmed by Mrs Begg, the poet's sister, who said her 
 father, William Burnes, often alluded to the terrible winter 
 of 1740 as causing the family impoverishment. 
 
 When Clochnahill farm was abandoned, probably at the 
 close of 1740, Eobert Burnes retired, with his three unmar- 
 ried daughters, to the cottage of Denside, in the same parish, 
 while his sons, Eobert and William, were compelled to proceed 
 elsewhere in quest of employment. 1 They journeyed south- 
 ward. In a letter to Mrs Dunlop, Gilbert Burns writes : " I have 
 often heard my father describe his anguish of mind when 
 they parted on the top of a hill, on the confines of their 
 native place, each going off his several way in search of 
 new adventures, and scarcely knowing whither they went." 
 Eobert proceeded to England. William made his head- 
 quarters at Edinburgh, where, writes his son Gilbert, " he 
 wrought hard when he could get work, passing through a 
 variety of difficulties." 
 
 The depressed condition of his family the poet ascribes to 
 their having been sufferers in the cause of the Stuarts, but on 
 this subject he is opposed by his brother Gilbert. What the 
 poet has alleged in reference to it may be adduced in the 
 first instance. 
 
 In his autobiographical letter to Dr Moore of 2d August 
 1787, the poet writes : " My ancestors rented lands off the 
 
 1 Chambers's Life of Burns, Edinb. 1851, pp. 334, 335. 
 C 
 
34 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 noble Keiths Marischal, and had the honour of sharing their 
 fate. I mention this because it threw my father on the 
 world at large. They followed boldly where their leaders led, 
 and welcomed ruin and shook hands with infamy, for what 
 they believed to be the cause of their God and their king." 
 In a letter to Lady Winifred Maxwell Constable, in December 
 1789, the poet remarks : " Though my fathers had not illustri- 
 ous honours and vast properties to hazard in the contest; 
 though they left their humble cottages only to add so many 
 units more to the unnoted crowd that followed their leaders, 
 yet what they could they did, and what they had they lost. 
 With unshaken firmness, and unconcealed political attach- 
 ments, they shook hands with ruin for what they esteemed 
 the cause 'of their king and country." In his poetical address 
 to William Tytler, he refers to the subject thus: 
 
 " My fathers that name have rever'd on a throne, 
 
 My fathers have fallen to right it ; 
 Those fathers would spurn their degenerate son, 
 That name should he scoffingly slight it." 
 
 It is matter of history that the poet's grandfather and 
 granduncle rented farms on the estate of the Earl Marischal, 
 the former at Clochnahill, in the parish of Dunnottar, the 
 latter at Elf hill, in the parish of Fetteresso. It is also certain 
 that the Marischal family were undeviating adherents of the 
 exiled house. .George, tenth Earl Marischal, landlord of the 
 brothers Burnes, proclaimed at Aberdeen, on the 28th Sep- 
 tember 1715, at the head of his retainers, the Chevalier St 
 George as King of Great Britain. He commanded two squad- 
 rons of cavalry at the battle of SherirTmuir, and in December 
 thereafter again proclaimed the Chevalier at the gate of his 
 house at Fetteresso. For his adherence to the Jacobite cause 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 35 
 
 he suffered attainder. That he was accompanied to Aberdeen 
 and Sheriffmuir by his tenantry, including the brothers 
 Burnes, is nearly certain, yet it would not appear that the 
 latter, by enacting loyalty to their chief, sustained actual 
 loss. They indeed possessed their farms long afterwards. 
 From 1715 to 1721, Clochnahill farm, extending to about sixty 
 acres, was rented for 10, 8s. 4d. sterling, and Elf hill for 
 less than half that sum. 1 The poet's narrative cannot there- 
 fore be understood as referring to any damage sustained by 
 his ancestors in connection with the first rebellion. In his 
 poetical "Address to Edinburgh," he bears this retrospect : 
 
 " Ev'n I, who sing in rustic lore, 
 
 Haply my sires have left their shed, 
 And fac'd grim danger's loudest roar, 
 Bold following where your fathers led." 
 
 The poet was misinformed as to the character of the support 
 rendered to the young Chevalier at Edinburgh. Not more 
 than three hundred of the citizens, and these of the humbler 
 class, joined the Prince's standard. 2 Among these very pro- 
 bably was the poet's father. His grandfather and grand- 
 uncle in Kincardineshire may also have joined the enterprise ; 
 and this may account for the extreme poverty to which 
 Eobert Burnes was ultimately reduced. He was, we are 
 informed by Gilbert Burns, helped by remittances from his 
 son William. On one occasion a one pound banknote was 
 sent, and the recipient was at a loss what to do with it, for 
 
 i There were 'certain minor dues. Thus the farmers at Clochnahill paid 
 four, arid the farmers at Elf hill two reikhens, or domestic fowls, which im- 
 plied, according to the usage of the period, that the former tenant had four 
 apartments, and the latter two. 
 
 3 R. Chambers's History of the Rebellion of 1745-46, Edin. 1869, p. 162. 
 
36 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 bank paper, as an equivalent for coin, was then scarcely 
 known in Kincardineshire. 
 
 From Edinburgh William Burnes migrated to the neigh- 
 bourhood of Ayr. The people of Ayr were zealous Presby- 
 terians and entirely loyal, and somehow a report arose among 
 them that the stranger had been in arms for the Chevalier. 
 William Burnes kept pretty well his own counsel; but among 
 his papers, according to his son Gilbert, was found a parish 
 certificate, testifying that he had no concern "in the late 
 wicked rebellion." This Gilbert Burns holds to be conclusive 
 that he had not joined the army of the Prince. It is not 
 so; the report that he had fought on the rebel side, and 
 the poet's expressions, would induce an opposite belief. We 
 incline to hold that William Burnes, and probably his father 
 and uncle, bore arms in the Jacobite cause, and were among 
 those scattered at Culloden. 
 
 Settling in the neighbourhood of Ayr, William Burnes 
 became gardener to the laird of Fairlie, and' afterwards to 
 Mr Crawford of Doonside. At length he took a feu or 
 perpetual lease of seven acres of land from Dr Campbell, 
 physician in Ayr, with the view of becoming nurseryman. On 
 his feu he built, with his own hand, a cottage of mud or clay, 
 of which the gable fell down shortly after the birth of his 
 first-born. Eemarking his industry, Provost Ferguson of 
 Ayr, who had lately purchased the estate of Doonholm, in 
 the neighbourhood, induced him to abandon his nursery and 
 become overseer of his lands. His services were so approved 
 by Mr Ferguson, that that gentleman, with a view to im- 
 proving his position, granted him the lease of a farm. The 
 farm was styled Mount Oliphant, and consisted of about 
 eighty acres. The rent was fixed at 40 for the first six 
 
THE FAMILY OF EGBERT BURNS. 37 
 
 years, and 45 thereafter. To stock the farm, Mr Ferguson 
 gave his tenant a loan of 100. On his lease William 
 Burnes entered at Whitsuntide 1766, and proceeded to 
 cultivate his lands with his wonted industry. But the soil 
 proved coarse and barren ; and encountering on the death 
 of his benefactor, Provost Ferguson, harsh usage from a 
 merciless factor (depicted in his son's poem of the "Twa 
 Dogs "), he, at the expiry of eleven years, quitted Mount 
 Oliphant. At Whitsuntide 1777, he obtained the lease of 
 Lochlea, a considerable farm in the parish of Tarbolton, and 
 for several years he and his family enjoyed at this place a 
 degree of comfort to which they had been strangers. But a 
 dispute arose as to the conditions of the lease, and the matter 
 being submitted to arbitration, William Burnes found himself 
 by the decision a ruined man. Only a short time surviving 
 his reverses, he died on the 13th February 1784, aged sixty- 
 three. His remains were deposited in the churchyard of 
 Alloway, where a simple tombstone was, by his son the poet, 
 erected to his memory. When the poet became famous, 
 visitors to the churchyard struck off and carried away chips 
 from the tombstone till it wholly disappeared. It was sub- 
 stituted by another, reared at the cost of Mr David Auld, a 
 patriotic gentleman of the neighbourhood. The inscription 
 was composed by the poet : 
 
 " This Stone was Erected to the 
 
 Memory of 
 AVi LLIAM BTJRXES.S, 
 
 Late Farmer in Lochlie, Parish of Tarbolton, 
 Who died Feby. 13, 1784, Aged 63 years, 
 
 And was buried here. 
 ye whose cheek the tear of pity stains, 
 
 Draw near with pious rev'rence and attend ! 
 Here lie the loving Husband's dear remains, 
 The tender Father, and the gen'rous Friend ; 
 
40 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 The marriage was celebrated on the 15th December. 1 The 
 bride, Agnes Broun, was bom on the 17th March 1732, and 
 was therefore in her twenty-fifth year. Her father, Gilbert. 
 Broun, farmer at Craigenton, Carrick, was thrice married, 
 and Agnes was his eldest child by the first marriage. When 
 she was nine years old her mother died, leaving four younger 
 children. A sister visiting her mother on her death-bed, sur- 
 prised to find her so cheerful and resigned, asked her whether 
 she was not grieved to leave her husband and children. The 
 dying woman replied, "I leave my children to the care of 
 God, and Gilbert will get another wife." 
 
 Young as she was, Agnes Broun took charge of her father's 
 younger children, for the domestic servants were chiefly em- 
 ployed in outdoor work. Before her mother's death she was 
 by a country weaver taught to read the Scriptures, and at 
 this point her education ceased. When her father contracted 
 a second marriage, -she was sent to live with her mother's 
 mother, who told her how, in the persecuting days of her 
 youth, she had sheltered the Covenanters. 
 
 At her grandmother's Agnes Broun used the spinning 
 wheel in winter, and at other seasons worked in the field, 
 sowed, reaped, and thrashed corn. She had promised her 
 hand to her grandmother's ploughman, but after an engage- 
 ment which subsisted five years, she learned that he had 
 lapsed from virtue, and renounced him. William Burnes 
 met her not long afterwards at Maybole fair. He had thought 
 of proposing marriage to a young woman at Alloway Mill, but 
 on meeting Agnes he abandoned his intention. After being 
 courted about a year, Agnes Broun became his wife. Some- 
 
 1 William Burnes's Family Bible. 
 
THE FAMILY OF ItOBEET BURNS. 41 
 
 what short in stature, she had a fine complexion, with pale 
 red hair, and dark bright eyes ; she was eminently cheerful, 
 and delighted to sing the older ballads. 
 
 Though imperfectly educated, and of very ordinary capa- 
 city, Agnes Broun was a suitable helpmate to her husband. 
 She respected his virtues, and was not insensible to his 
 endowments. " Mrs Burnes," writes Mr Murdoch, " listened 
 to her husband with a more marked attention than to any- 
 body else. . . . When under the necessity of being absent, 
 she seemed to regret as a real loss that she had missed what 
 the good man said. She had the most marked esteem for her 
 husband of any woman I ever knew." 
 
 Mrs Burnes survived her husband thirty-six years. For 
 many years she resided with her son Gilbert. She died in 
 his house at Grant's Braes, Haddingtonshire, on the 14th 
 January 1820, in her eighty-eighth year. Her remains were 
 deposited in Bolton churchyard, near Hafldington. 
 
 Of the marriage of William Burnes and Agnes Broun were 
 born four sons, Eobert, Gilbert, William, and John; and 
 three daughters, Agnes, Annabella, and Isabella. In the 
 parish register of Ayr the birth of Agnes, the eldest daughter, 
 is thus notified : " Agnes Burns, daughter lawful of William 
 Burns, gardener in Alloway, and Agnes Broun, his spouse, 
 was born September 30, 1762. Baptized by Mr W. Dal- 
 rymple." She married in 1804, at Dinning, Dumfriesshire, 
 William Gait, who became land-steward to M. Fortescue, 
 Esq., on his estate in the north of Ireland ; she died without 
 issue, at Stephenstown, county Louth, in 1834 ; her remains 
 were deposited in the churchyard of Dundalk, where a tomb- 
 stone has been erected to her memory. Her husband died on 
 the 1st March 1847. 
 
42 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 Annabella, the second daughter, was born at Alloway on 
 the 14th November 1764. She died, unmarried, at -Grant's 
 Braes, Haddingtonshire, on the 2d March 1832. Her remains 
 were deposited in Bolton churchyard. 
 
 Isabella, third daughter of William Burnes and Agnes 
 Broun, is in the Ayr register described as " lawful daughter 
 of William Burns, farmer." Born on the 27th June 1771, 
 she married on the 9th December 1793 John Begg, who 
 superintended the farm of Dinning, parish of Closeburn, 
 Dumfriesshire, rented by his brother-in-law, Gilbert Burns, 
 and who was then non-resident, being factor at Morhani 
 Muir, Haddington. Mr John Begg subsequently became 
 land-steward on the estate of Blackwood, Lanarkshire, belong- 
 ing to Mr Hope Vere. By his horse rearing and falling upon 
 him he was killed on the 24th April 1813. 
 
 Subsequent to her husband's death, Mrs Begg resided suc- 
 cessively at Ormiston and Trauent till June 1843, when she 
 settled at Bridge House, Alloway, near her birthplace. She 
 died 4th December 1858, and her remains were consigned to 
 the grave in Alloway churchyard, in which, seventy-five years 
 before, her father's dust had been deposited. 
 
 Of the marriage of John Begg and Isabella Burns were 
 born six sons, William, John, Eobert Burns, Gilbert, James 
 Hope, and Edward Hamilton ; and three daughters, Agnes, 
 Jane Breckenridge, and Isabella. 
 
 William Begg, eldest son of John Begg and Isabella Burns, 
 was born on the 29th July 1794. In 1817 he was appointed 
 parish schoolmaster of Ormiston, Haddingtonshire. In 1833 
 he resigned his office and sailed for Canada ; he there resided 
 at Clinton, Goderich, till his death, which took place on the 
 15th May 1864. 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 43 
 
 John Begg, second son of John Begg and Isabella Burns, 
 was born at Mauchline on the 27th April 1796. Bred to a 
 mechanical profession, he settled at Kilmarnock, where he died 
 llth October 1867. He married 14th November 1817 Agnes 
 Wilson (born 1795, died 1851), by whom he had five sons 
 and three daughters. John, the eldest son, born 21st March 
 1821, holds a farm at Pudman Creek, New South Wales; 
 twice married, he has four sons, John, Andrew, Eobert, and 
 Neil ; and a daughter, Janet. 
 
 Eobert Burns Begg, second son of John Begg and Agnes 
 
 Wilson, was born 9th May 1823 ; he married in 1846 
 
 Winefred, with issue. Walter Wilson, third son, born 16th 
 July 1828, died in infancy ; William, fourth son, born 1st April 
 1833, married in 1852, and has three sons and five daughters ; 
 James, fifth son, born 19th September 1836, died unmarried 
 31st May 1874. 
 
 Marion Adams Begg, eldest daughter, of John Begg and 
 Agnes Wilson, was born 17th August 1818; she married 
 Eichard Johnstone, by whom she had a son and two 
 daughters; she died 7th February 1871. Jane Breckenridge 
 Begg, second daughter, born 8th March 1826, married David 
 Campbell, with issue ; she and her husband reside at Largs, 
 Ayrshire. Isabella Burns Begg, third daughter, born 27th 
 April 1830, married George Preston ; she died 3d November 
 1856, leaving a son and daughter. 
 
 Eobert Burns Begg, third son of John Begg .and Isabella 
 Burns, was born in the parish of Dundonald, Ayrshire, and 
 was educated at W T allace Hall Academy, Dumfriesshire. In 
 1818 he was appointed schoolmaster at Bent, on the estate of 
 Blackwood; he afterwards assisted in the parish school of 
 Dalmeny, and in 1822 was elected parish schoolmaster of 
 
44 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 Kinross. This office he held fifty-one years. He died at 
 Kinross on the 25th July 1876. He married, 27th July 1825, 
 Grace, daughter of Bruce Beveridge, grand-daughter of James 
 Beveridge, Esq. of Balado, by whom he had seven sons and 
 three daughters. 
 
 John Begg, eldest son of Eobert Burns Begg and Grace 
 Beveridge, born 25th May 1826, is one of the owners and 
 manager of the Kinneil Ironworks, in the county of Linlith- 
 gow. He married, first, 10th April 1855, Eliza, daughter of 
 Andrew Vannan, distiller, Borrowstounness; and, secondly, 3d 
 October 1865, Elizabeth Simpson, daughter of James Ander- 
 son, builder, Calcutta. He has four sons, Robert Burns, 
 Andrew Vannan, John, and James Beveridge Anderson; also 
 two daughters, Elizabeth Anderson, and Grace Margaret. 
 Bruce Begg, second son of Robert Burns Begg, born 22d 
 December 1827, died 10th December 1836. James Beve- 
 ridge Begg, third son, born 24th October 1829, is settled in 
 Virginia. He married, first, 31st August 1857, Mary Haldane ; 
 and, secondly, 25th July 1863, Janet Haldane. He has a 
 daughter, Mary. Robert Burns Begg, fourth son, born 1st 
 May 1833, is a solicitor at Kinross. He married, first, 5th 
 November 1861, Jane Hutchison; secondly, 17th March 
 1870, Mary Leburn, by whom he has a son, Robert Burns. 
 Bruce Beveridge Begg, fifth son, born 24th June 1837, studied 
 at the University of Glasgow, and in 1865 was ordained 
 minister of Abbotshall, Fifeshire. He married, 13th Decem- 
 ber 1871, Magdalene, daughter of Andrew Currie, Esq., of 
 Glassmount, by whom he has a son, Robert Burns, and a 
 daughter, Elizabeth. William, sixth son, born 10th June 
 1839 ; married, 2d June 1869, Eleanor Jane Hogg. A naval 
 engineer, he resides in Newcastle. Gilbert Burns Begg, 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 45 
 
 seventh son, born 17th May 1842. A civil engineer, he 
 resides at Motherwell, Lanarkshire. He married, 27th Sep- 
 tember 1870, Annie Cuthbertson, by whom he has a son, 
 Eobert Burns, and a daughter, Grace. 
 
 Isabella, eldest daughter of Eobert Burns Begg and Grace 
 Beveridge, was born 28th May 1831 ; she married, 9th Au- 
 gust 1866, Andrew Vannan, distiller, Borrowstounness. Jane, 
 second daughter, born 4th January 1844, died in infancy. 
 Grace Jane, youngest daughter, born 12th February 1846, 
 resides at Kinross, unmarried. 
 
 Gilbert Begg, fourth son of John Begg and Isabella Burns, 
 was born on the 16th February 1802. Entering the navy, he 
 engaged in several important services, and took part in the 
 Crimean war. He survives, unmarried. 
 
 James Hope, fifth son of John Begg and Isabella Burns, 
 was born on the 2d February 1809. He served in the 26th 
 regiment, and died unmarried at Chusan, in China, 2d 
 November 1840. 
 
 Edward Hamilton, sixth son of John Begg and Isabella 
 Burns, born 12th August 1811, died 2d May 1824. 
 
 Jane Breckenridge, second daughter of John Begg and 
 Isabella Burns, was born on the 16th April 1804; she died 
 on the 7th July 1822, unmarried. Agnes Brown, the eldest 
 daughter, born 17th April 1800, and Isabella Burns, the third 
 daughter, born 27th April 1806, are both unmarried; they 
 reside at Bridge House, Alloway. 
 
 John Burnes, fourth and youngest son of William Burnes 
 and Ag n es Broun, was born on the 12th July 1769. He died 
 in his fourteenth year, and his remains were deposited in the 
 churchyard of Mauchline. 
 
 William Burnes, third son of William Burnes and Agnes 
 
46 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 Broun, was born at Alloway 31st July 1767. A journey- 
 man saddler, he prosecuted his craft, first at Newcastle, 
 and afterwards in London. He died at London, July 1790, 
 and his remains were deposited in St Paul's church- 
 yard ; the spot of his interment was unmarked, and is now 
 unknown. 
 
 Gilbert Burns, second son of William Burnes and Agnes 
 Broun, was born at Alloway on the 28th September 1760. 
 Concerning him, his early preceptor, Mr Murdoch, writes : 
 " Gilbert always appeared to me to possess a more lively 
 imagination, and to be more of the wit than Eobert. . . . 
 Eobert's countenance was generally grave, and expressive of 
 a serious, contemplative, and thoughtful mind. Gilbert's face 
 said, " Mirth, with thee I mean to live ; " and" certainly if any 
 person who knew the two boys had been asked which of them 
 was the most likely to court the muses, he would surely 
 never have guessed that Eobert had a propensity of that 
 kind." 
 
 By ranking as a creditor of his father for his stipulated 
 wages on Lochlea farm, Gilbert was, in conjunction with 
 his brother the poet, enabled to retain a portion of farm 
 stock, and therewith, aided by the savings of other members 
 of the family, to take in lease the farm of Mossgiel, near 
 Mauchline. This farm was rented from Mr Gavin Hamilton, 
 writer in Mauchline, who himself leased the farm from the Earl 
 of Loudoun. In his tack, Gilbert was associated with his 
 brother Eobert; they entered upon the farm in March 1784. 
 With insufficient capital, and contending with a cold, ungen- 
 erous soil, the brothers struggled hard, but the utmost 
 industry could not overcome the difficulties of their situation. 
 At length, from the proceeds of the second edition of his 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 47 
 
 poems in 1787, Robert was enabled to lend his brother the 
 sum of 180, which enabled him to discharge debt, and to 
 struggle with an ungrateful soil till 1797, when he obtained 
 in lease the farm of Dinning, in Nithsdale. 
 
 In 1800 Gilbert Burns was induced by Mrs Dunlop to 
 take temporary charge of the farm of Morham Muir, near 
 Haddington. His own farm at Dinning, which he retained 
 till 1810, Gilbert entrusted to the management of John Begg, 
 his sister Isabella's husband. In 1804 he accepted the 
 factorship of Lord Blantyre, and in the spring of that year 
 established his residence at Grant's Braes, near Lethington, 
 Haddingtonshire. In the factorship, he had in reward of 
 service a free house, with a salary of 100, which was sub- 
 sequently advanced to 140. He died at Grant's Braes on 
 the 8th April 1827, aged sixty-seven. His remains were 
 deposited in Bolton churchyard. 
 
 Gilbert Burns facially resembled his brother the poet, with 
 the difference that he had an aquiline nose, the poet a 
 straight one. Though well-read and expert in literary com- 
 position, he devoted himself chiefly to rural affairs. To his 
 intelligent conversations, Dr Currie was largely indebted in 
 preparing the poet's memoirs. He edited an edition of his 
 brother's works, which was published in 1820 by Cadell and 
 Davies, accompanied by a dissertation from his own pen on 
 the effect which Presbyterianism had produced on the Scot- 
 tish national character. For this edition he received from 
 the publishers 500, which enabled him to discharge to the 
 poet's widow the debt of 180 contracted thirty- two years 
 before. With the reserved manner of his father, he avoided 
 publicity, but by all to whom he was known he was re- 
 spected for his worth and sagacity. Gilbert Burns married, 
 
48 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 21st June 1*791, Jean, daughter of James Breckenridge, 
 Kilmarnock, 1 and granddaughter of James Breckenridge, 
 parochial schoolmaster, Irvine. She was born on the 6th 
 February 1764, and died on the 30th September 1841 ; her 
 remains rest in the churchyard of Erskine, Eenfrewshire. 
 
 Of the marriage of Gilbert Burns and Jean Breckenridge 
 were bom six sons and five daughters. Janet, the eldest 
 daughter, bom 23d May 1799, died 30th October 1816; 
 Agnes, second daughter, born 16th November 1800, died 14th 
 September 1815 ; Anne, third daughter, born 12th September 
 1805, survives; Jean, fourth daughter, born 8th June 1807, 
 died 4th January 1827; Isabella, fifth daughter, born 17th 
 May 1809, died 3d July 1815. 
 
 William Burns, eldest son of Gilbert Burns and Jean 
 Breckenridge, was born on the 15th May 1792. Settling in 
 Dublin in 1822, he married, in 1824, Jane, daughter of Peter 
 Callanan of county Galway; she died in 1858. Of the 
 marriage were born seven children, of whom four died young. 
 Two sons, James and William, and a daughter, Helen, sur- 
 vive, all of whom are unmarried. William Burns resides at 
 Portarlington. 
 
 James Burns, second son of Gilbert Burns, born 14th April 
 1794, became a writer, first at Haddington, and afterwards at 
 Glasgow, where he was also surveyor of taxes. He latterly 
 became factor to Lord Blantyre at Erskine, Benfrewshire, 
 and there died 22d June 1847. 
 
 1 Jean Breckenridge was nearly connected by marriage with Sir James Shaw, 
 Bart., a native of Kilmarnock, Lord Mayor and Chamberlain of the city of 
 London. Sir James became an efficient patron of the Burns family. Through 
 his efforts the poet's three sons got a start in life. Eobert, the eldest, was 
 appointed to a post in the stamp office ; James Glencairn was nominated to 
 Christ's Hospital, where he received his education, and both he and his 
 brother, William Nicol, obtained Indian cadetships. 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 49 
 
 Thomas Burns, third son of Gilbert Burns, was born 10th 
 April 1796. Having studied at the University of Edinburgh, 
 he became tutor to Sir Hew Dalrymple of North Berwick. 
 Licensed to preach by the presbytery of Haddington on the 
 3d December 1822, he was on the 13th April 1826 ordained 
 minister of Ballantrae, Ayrshire. Preferred to the living of 
 Monkton, in the same county, he was there settled on the 
 18th May 1830. He joined the Free Church in 1843, and 
 on the 25th June 1846, became minister of a Free Church 
 congregation at Portobello, near Edinburgh. Having, along 
 with Captain Cargill and others, projected the Free Church 
 settlement of Otago, New Zealand, he relinquished his 
 charge in the autumn of 1847, and with the first body of 
 settlers sailed from Greenock as their pastor. He ministered 
 at Otago till his death, which took place at Dunedin on the 
 23d January 1871. He was D.D. of the University of Edin- 
 burgh. 
 
 Dr Thomas Burns married Clementina, daughter of the 
 Eev. James Francis Grant, rector of Merston, Sussex, son of 
 Sir Alexander Grant of Monymusk, by whom he had one 
 son, Arthur John, and six daughters. 
 
 Arthur John, only son of Dr Thomas Burns, married Sarah, 
 daughter of Thomas Dickson, Otago, by whom he has had 
 nine children. Clementina, eldest daughter of Dr Burns, 
 married Andrew J. Elles, son of the Rev. James Elles, Salt- 
 coats, and captain of the ship "Philip Laing," which in 1847 
 took out the first settlers to Otago. Of this marriage were 
 born three sons and one daughter. James, the eldest son, is 
 now resident at Amoy, in China ; Gilbert, the second son, is 
 settled at Oporto, and Malcolm Jamieson, the third son, 
 resides in London. The daughter, Clementina, resides with 
 
50 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIKS OF 
 
 lier father, who is now collector of customs at Invercargill, 
 New Zealand. 
 
 . Jane, second daughter of Dr Thomas Burns, married the 
 Eev. William Bannerman, minister of the Presbyterian 
 Church, Otago. They have several children. 
 
 Anne, third, and Frances, fourth daughters, married at 
 
 Dunedin, Henry and Alexander, sons of Livingstone, 
 
 formerly of Constable's publishing house, Edinburgh; both 
 sisters have issue. Agnes, fifth daughter, is unmarried. 
 Isabella, sixth daughter, married, at Dunedin, Alexander 
 Stevenson. He died in 1876, leaving one son, Douglas. 
 
 Eobert, fourth son of Gilbert Burns and Jean Breckenridge, 
 was born 22d November 1797. He emigrated to South 
 America in 1826, and there died about 1839. John, fifth 
 son, born 6th July 1802, became a teacher of mathematics at 
 Edinburgh, where he died 26th February 1827. 
 
 Gilbert Burns, sixth and youngest son of Gilbert Burns and 
 Jean Breckenridge, was born at Morham Muir, Haddington- 
 shire, 24th December 1803. Educated at the High School of 
 Edinburgh, he entered a mercantile house, and in 1834 
 settled in Dublin. There he is one of the senior partners in 
 the large mercantile house of Todd, Burns, & Co. He mar- 
 ried in 1842, Jemima Georgiana, daughter of Alexander 
 Ferrier of Dublin, by whom he has two sons, Eobert, and 
 Theodore Gilbert Alexander, and two daughters, Mary and 
 Isabella. 
 
 Eobert, elder son of Gilbert Burns and Jemima Ferrier, 
 resides at the Elms, Weybridge. He married Sibylla, daughter 
 of the Eev. Phillipps Donnithorne Dayman, vicar of Pound- 
 stock, Cornwall, by whom he has a son, Kenneth Glencairn, 
 and a daughter, Edith Donnithorne. 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 51 
 
 EGBERT BURNS, the poet, was the eldest son of William 
 Burnes and Agnes Broun. His birth, in the register of Ayr 
 parish, is recorded thus : 
 
 " Eobert Burns, son law 1 to William Burns in Alloway, and 
 Agnes Broun, his spouse, was born Jan y 25th 1759. Bap d 
 26th, by Mr W m - Dalrymple. 1 Witnesses John Tennant 2 
 and James Young." 
 
 The poet was born in a clay-built cottage, which his father 
 reared with his own hands ; when he was nine days old, a 
 portion of the gable was blown down by a gale, and the 
 structure otherwise so shattered that he had, with his mother, 
 to be removed to a neighbour's house. In his sixth year 
 lie was sent to a school at Alloway Mill, taught by one 
 Campbell, but on the removal of the teacher to a post at Ayr, 
 William Burnes and his neighbours employed a young teacher, 
 John Murdoch, as tutor to their children. Murdoch, though 
 
 1 Son of James Dalrymple, sheriff-clerk of Ayrshire, William Dalrymple 
 was ordained to the second charge of Ayr, on the 18th December 1746 ; he 
 was, on a vacancy, preferred to the first charge in 1756. The degree of D.D. 
 was conferred on him by the University of St Andrews in 1779, and in 1781 
 he was elected moderator of the General Assembly. He died 28th January 
 1814, in the ninety-first year of his age, and sixty-eighth year of his ministry. 
 Greatly reputed for his amiable dispositions and gentle manners, Dr 
 Dalrymple is thus celebrated by Burns in " The Kirk's Alarm : " 
 " D'rymple, D'rymple mild, 
 Your heart's like a child, 
 And your life like the new-driven snaw." 
 
 * John Tennant was session-clerk of Ayr, and English master in the burgh 
 school. It will be remarked that he enters the family name as Burns, such 
 being the usual mode of spelling the name in Ayrshire. The poet, after 
 several years spelling his name Burness, like his cousin, James Burnes of 
 Montrose, agreed with his brother Gilbert to adopt the form used in the west 
 of Scotland. The last time he subscribed his name "Burness" was as 
 Deputy-Master of St James's Lodge, Tarbolton, 1st March 1786. His pro- 
 posals for publishing the first or Kilmarnock edition of his poems, dated 14th 
 April 1786, are issued in the name of Robert Burns. 
 
52 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 only in his eighteenth year, was a competent instructor, and 
 under his tuition Robert made progress in English composi- 
 tion. Before his ninth year he read every English book 
 which fell in his way. At the parish school of Dalrymple 
 and Kirkoswald he improved his handwriting, and became 
 acquainted with geometry and land-surveying. At Ayr he 
 studied French and the elements of Latinity. Hearing an 
 old woman at his father's fire-side relate stories of the mar- 
 vellous, he conceived a taste for poetry. His favourite poets 
 were Eamsay and Fergusson, while he read admiringly the 
 works of Shenstone and James Thomson. His father's strait- 
 ened circumstances, while contending with the barren soil of 
 Mount Oliphant, necessitated his working on the farm. In 
 his fifteenth year, he on the harvest field became enamoured 
 of a fair girl, and in her praise composed verses. He next 
 sung of Mary Campbell, a young dairymaid, whose early death 
 led him afterwards to compose his beautiful ode " To Mary in 
 Heaven." Eemoving with his father to the farm of Lochlea, 
 he in 1780 established at Tarbolton a literary re-union, called 
 the Bachelor's Club. At the village of Mauchline, to which 
 he afterwards removed, he founded another literary institution. 
 He joined a Free Mason lodge, and became a zealous member 
 of the craft. 
 
 On a portion of land at Lochlea he was permitted by his 
 father to cultivate flax, and in 1781 he resolved to become a 
 flax dresser, and so proceeded to Irvine to acquire a know- 
 ledge of the trade. But after a six month's trial his work- 
 shop was destroyed by fire, and he returned to Lochlea. His 
 father having died in February 1784 he and his brother 
 Gilbert rented the farm of Mossgiel, near Mauchline. During 
 the day he worked diligently on the farm, his evenings 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 53 
 
 being devoted to literature and verse making. He courted 
 Jean Armour ; but her father, a master mason, was opposed 
 to the union, and compelled her, with twin children she had 
 borne to the poet, to reside under his own roof. Feeling that 
 he had been deeply wronged, and almost driven to despair, 
 Burns resolved to leave the country and become a bookkeeper 
 at Jamaica. With this view he collected his verses, and 
 sending out subscription sheets, obtained for a contemplated 
 volume three hundred and fifty subscribers. In 1786 he 
 issued at Kilmarnock a thin octavo, entitled, " Poems chiefly 
 in the Scottish Dialect." l Six hundred copies were sold, and, 
 with the profits, amounting to twenty pounds, he paid his 
 passage for Jamaica, and was preparing to embark at Greenock. 
 Meanwhile Dr Laurie, minister of Loudoun, one of his ad- 
 mirers, brought his volume under the notice of Dr Blacklock 
 of Edinburgh, who greatly commended it, and finding the im- 
 pression distributed, recommended its reproduction. By the 
 advice of friends, Burns hastened to Edinburgh, where he 
 was hailed in the best literary circles. For his lodgings in 
 Baxter's Close, Lawnmarket, he paid a weekly rent of eighteen- 
 pence. He had attained the age of twenty-seven, and hitherto 
 his income had not exceeded seven pounds a year. 
 
 Under the patronage of the Earl of Glencairn, and other 
 members of the Caledonian Hunt, a second edition of his 
 poems was published at Edinburgh in April 1787; it was 
 accompanied by a list of 1500 subscribers. In May he made 
 a tour to the south of Scotland and into Northumberland* 
 visiting many interesting scenes; at Jedburgh he was pre- 
 sented with the freedom of the burgh. After visiting his 
 
 1 The Kilmariiock edition was published at 3s. ; a copy sold recently by 
 auction for 60. 
 
54 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 relations at Mossgiel in June, he returned to Edinburgh, and 
 from thence proceeded to Dunfermlirie, there to inspect the 
 grave of King Eobert the Bruce. In September he made an 
 excursion to Stirling and the Highlands. Among those who 
 extended to him special hospitalities were, Sir William Murray 
 at Ochtertyre, the Duke of Athole at Blair Atliole, and the 
 Duke of Gordon at Gordon Castle. 
 
 Eeturning to Edinburgh, the poet celebrated the birthday 
 of Prince Charles Edward on the last day of December, and 
 on the occasion produced an ode, breathing Jacobite senti- 
 ments. In the Canongate churchyard he traced the grave of 
 the poet, Kobert Fergusson, and at the spot reared a tomb- 
 stone to his memory. While at Edinburgh he conducted his 
 celebrated correspondence with " Clarinda," the accomplished 
 Mrs M'Lehose. 
 
 Having sold the copyright of his poems to Mr Creech for 
 100, he left Edinburgh in the summer of 1788 possessed of 
 nearly 500. To his brother Gilbert he gave a loan of 180, 
 and with the balance stocked the farm of Ellisland, in Niths- 
 dale, which he obtained in lease from Mr Miller of Dalswin- 
 ton, one of his admirers. Through his friend, Mr Graham of 
 Fintry, he was appointed Excise officer of the district sur- 
 rounding his farm. As a farmer he did not prosper, and 
 renouncing his lease in 1791, he established his residence 
 at Dumfries as an officer of Excise ; his salary was not more 
 than 70. 
 
 ' He continued to invoke the muse. To Johnson's " Musi- 
 cal Museum " he contributed 190 songs, original and amended; 
 he also furnished words to numerous airs in Mr George 
 Thomson's " Collection." 
 
 At Dumfries his society was cherished, while many notable 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 55 
 
 persons at a distance sought his correspondence. Unhappily 
 he did not always prefer the companionship of persons worthy 
 of his genius; and while he never neglected his professional 
 duties, he indulged in social pleasures somewhat too freely. 
 Keenly advocating political progress, he sympathised with 
 the principles of the French Convention ; but when licentious- 
 ness usurped the place of patriotism, and British liberties 
 came to be endangered, he stood firmly by the Constitution, 
 and became a volunteer. 
 
 Though possessing a well-knit frame, Burns was not robust. 
 In early manhood he suffered from an imperfect circulation, 
 and was subject to nocturnal attacks of palpitation and faint- 
 ness. On account of his political opinions, he incurred some 
 disapproval, and in moments of depression he fancied that he 
 was the victim of detraction. In the spring of 1795 his health 
 became feeble, and the death of an infant daughter in the 
 following autumn, accelerated his complaint. He was at- 
 tacked with rheumatic fever, and having before his recovery 
 exposed himself at a convivial party, he contracted a serious 
 illness. Sea-bathing, to which he had recourse, did not prove 
 remedial. On the 21st July 1796 he breathed his last. 
 
 Burns died at the early age of thirty-seven. Ten years 
 before his death he was unknown out of his own neigh- 
 bourhood. Misfortune drove him into print, and what he 
 printed charmed and electrified his countrymen. At once 
 he became famous ; he was feted in the capital, men of letters 
 courted his society, and persons of noble rank admitted him 
 to intimacy. As a household word his name flashed over 
 Scotland. Long before his death his poems were read and 
 his songs lilted in every Highland vale and Lowland hamlet. 
 The elder minstrelsy with its impurities wan rejected, and in 
 
56 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIKS OF 
 
 its stead his verses were accepted everywhere. He had caught 
 the lispings of nature and made them vocal. In his verses the 
 humblest peasant caught the glow of patriotism and the spirit 
 of independence. He was the greatest Scotsman of his century. 
 
 Illustrious as he was, Burns had failings incident to huma- 
 nity. Descended paternally from a Celtic stock, he was in- 
 liuenced by the passionate fervour of that impressible race. 
 Somewhat too prone to share the pleasures of society, he con- 
 tracted habits which were injurious to him. But, sun-like, his 
 genius rose above the clouds which threatened to obscure it. 
 He was, as his sister Mrs Begg informed the writer, a sincere 
 believer in the Christian verities; he discharged the duties of 
 the family altar after his father's death, and was careful that 
 his younger sister should be instructed in the church cate- 
 chism. He regretted his errors, actively fulfilled the duties of 
 his office, lived within the bounds of his income, and died 
 without debt. 
 
 In person the poet was nearly five feet nine inches in 
 height; he was well formed but stooped slightly. His face 
 was of the dark Celtic type, with features strongly marked ; 
 he had a straight nose, and penetrating dark eyes, deeply set. 
 " His countenance so beamed with genius," remarked to the 
 writer, his sister, Mrs Begg, " that any one seeing him even 
 incidentally was not likely to forget him." His head was 
 large, but in the upper part flat rather than arched ; his fore- 
 head was broad, but not high. Unobtrusive in society, he 
 impressed all who listened to him when he entered heartily 
 into conversation. 
 
 On Monday the 25th July 1796, being four days after his 
 death, his remains were interred in St Michael's churchyard, 
 Dumfries. On the evening of the preceding day the body 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 57 
 
 was placed in the Town Hall, where it lay in state till the 
 time of burial. The Dumfriesshire Volunteers determined 
 that their illustrious comrade should be buried with military 
 honours. The Angusshire Fencibles and the Cinque Ports 
 Cavalry, then stationed in the place, offered assistance. 
 Among the junior officers of the latter was Mr Jenkinson, after- 
 wards Earl of Liverpool and Prime Minister. Ten thousand 
 persons joined the funeral procession. 
 
 The bard's remains were deposited in a spot in the north- 
 east corner of the churchyard, which some years previously 
 he had purchased. There a plain tombstone bearing the 
 date of his death was erected by his widow. In 1815 an 
 elegant mausoleum in honour of his memory was by public 
 subscription raised in St Michael's churchyard, to the vault 
 under which his remains were reverently transferred on the 
 19th September of that year. The mausoleum is in the 
 form of a Greek temple; it is adorned with a mural sculp- 
 ture by Turnerelli, representing the Genius of Scotland find- 
 ing Burns at the plough, and casting over him her poetic 
 mantle. In 1784 the poet met Jean Armour, who after- 
 wards became his wife. Born 27th February 1765 l she 
 was one of the eleven children of James Armour, master 
 mason, residing in the Cowgate of Mauchline. From his wife 
 in disposition and habits James Armour essentially differed. 
 A model of industry, he steadily laboured at his craft, and in 
 private life was sober, earnest, and circumspect. Mrs Armour 
 lacked diligence, and herself attached to frivolous pastimes, 
 she encouraged similar tastes in her children. In one respect 
 
 1 The year 1765 is the date on the gravestone in the mausoleum in St 
 Michael's churchyard. It was the original entry also in the poet's family 
 Bible, but it has been erased, and the yeur 1767 substituted. 
 
58 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIKS OF 
 
 only did her daughters profit by her example; they contracted 
 a taste for music. Jean Armour sung sweetly, and this ac- 
 complishment, in addition to her personal charms, won the 
 poet's love. He celebrated her in song, and early in 1786 
 privately owned her as his wife. But her father opposed 
 the union, and the poet experienced an irregular divorce. 
 James Armour afterwards relented, and in 1788 allowed his 
 daughter to join her husband. 
 
 Mrs Bums died at Dumfries on the 26th March 1834 in 
 the same house in which the poet expired thirty-eight years 
 previously. Through the profits of her husband's works, 
 certain private benefactions, and latterly by the generosity of 
 her sons, she was comfortably maintained. 
 
 By his wife, Jean Armour, the poet was father of five sons 
 and four daughters. Jean, the eldest daughter, a twin with 
 her brother Eobert, was born on the 3d September 1786; she 
 died at the age of fourteen months. Twin daughters, born on 
 the 3d March 1788, died soon after birth. Elizabeth Eidclel, 
 the youngest daughter, so named in honour of Mrs Riddel of 
 Glenriddel, was born on the 21st November 1792; she died 
 at Mauchline in the autumn of 1795, and was there buried. 
 The poet, whose health was already broken, was too ill to 
 attend her funeral. 
 
 Of the poet's five sons, Francis Wallace, the second son, 
 so named in honour of Mrs Dunlop of Dunlop, was born on 
 the 18th August 1789; he died 9th July 1803, at the age of 
 fourteen. Maxwell, the fifth and youngest son, named after 
 Dr Maxwell, the physician who attended the poet in his last 
 illness, was born 26th July 1796 (the day of his father's 
 funeral); he died 24th April 1799, aged two years and nine 
 months. 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 59 
 
 Eobert Burns, the poet's eldest son, a twin with his sister 
 Jean, was born 3d September 1786. From the grammar 
 school of Dumfries, he proceeded to the University of Edin- 
 burgh, where he studied during two sessions. Another session 
 he spent at the University of Glasgow. Having procured an 
 appointment in the Stamp Office, he entered on his duties at 
 London in 1804. In 1833 he got his superannuation allow- 
 ance, when he visited his mother at Dumfries, whom he had 
 not seen for twenty-six years. At Dumfries he fixed his 
 residence. There in the summer of 1856 the writer of these 
 Memoirs paid him a visit. Being ten years old when his 
 father died he remembered him, but not so as to describe 
 his personal aspects. Into the hands of his son the bard 
 placed the works of the English poets, and encouraged him 
 to read them, which he did. But he never spoke of his own 
 verses; nor did the son know that his father was a poet 
 until the neighbours, after his decease, spoke of him as such 
 to his mother. In form of cranium and facial lineaments 
 Kobert strongly resembled his father. With a vigorous 
 intellect, improved by extensive and varied reading, he 
 possessed a memory singularly retentive. In London he 
 added to his finances by giving instruction in mathematics 
 and in the classics. He excelled in conversation. He died 
 on the 14th May 1857, at the age of seventy-one ; his re- 
 mains were conveyed to the vault of his father's mausoleum. 
 He married at London, on the 24th March 1809, Anne 
 Sherwood, by whom he had a daughter Eliza, who married, 
 on the 27th September 1836, Bartholomew James Everitt, 
 assistant-surgeon in the East India Company's service, who 
 died at London on the 20th April 1840. 
 
 The only child of Mr and Mrs Everitt, Martha Burns 
 
60 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 Everitt, is unmarried. Mrs Everitt resides at Bathwick Hill, 
 Bath. 
 
 William Nicol Burns, third son of the poet, was born at 
 Ellislancl on the 9th April 1791 ; he was named in honour of 
 his father's friend, William Nicol, of Edinburgh. Educated 
 at Dumfries Academy, he in his sixteenth year sailed to India 
 as a midshipman. Not long 1 afterwards he obtained an Indian 
 cadetship. Proceeding to the Madras Presidency, he there 
 served as an officer of the 7th Native Infantry for thirty- 
 three years. He ultimately commanded his regiment. In 
 1843 he retired from the army, and returning to Britain 
 settled at Cheltenham with his brother, James Glencairn, 
 then Major Burns, In 1855 he became colonel by brevet. 
 He died at Cheltenham on the 21st February 1872, aged 
 eighty-one. His remains were deposited in the vault of the 
 poet's mausoleum. He married in 1822 Catherine Adelaide, 
 daughter of Eichard Crone, of Summer Hill, Dublin, who died, 
 without issue, at Killudghee, in India, on the 29th June 1841. 
 
 James Glencairn Burns, the poet's fourth son, was born at 
 Dumfries on the 12th August 1794, and was named after his 
 father's friend, James, Earl of Glencairn. He was educated at 
 Dumfries Academy and Christ's Hospital, London. Obtain-, 
 ing a cadetship, he sailed for India in June 1811. Arriving 
 at Calcutta, he there joined the 15th Regiment of Bengal 
 Native Infantry/ In 1817 he was appointed by the Marquis 
 of Hastings, Governor-General, to an important post in the 
 Commissariat. As Captain Burns, he visited Britain in 
 1831, returning to India in 1833, when he received from 
 Lord Metcalfe the important office of Judge and Collector 
 of Cachar. In 1839 he finally returned to Britain with the 
 rank of major. For several years he resided near London. 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 61 
 
 He acted as Government Commissioner in an inquiry into 
 the condition of the operatives in paper mills, on which he 
 presented a valuable report. His brother, Lieutenant-Colonel 
 William Nicol Burns, having retired from active service in 
 1843, he arranged to reside with him in Cheltenham. In 
 1844 the brothers were celebrated by a festive "Welcome" 
 on the banks of the Doon. James Glencairn Burns obtained 
 the brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1855. He died 
 at Cheltenham on the 18th November 1865, and his remains 
 were consigned to the vault of the poet's mausoleum. 
 
 With the Colonels Burns, the writer of these Memoirs 
 possessed considerable intimacy. Colonel William Burns was 
 an amiable, kindly man ; he had the same type of face, but 
 otherwise did not resemble his father. Colonel James was 
 an accomplished Oriental scholar ; he was occasionally chosen 
 examiner in Hindustanee, in Cheltenham College. Possessed 
 of dramatic power, he took part in private theatricals. He 
 inherited a rheumatic tendency, which, he remarked to the 
 writer, had afflicted him from childhood. Abundantly facetious 
 and good-humoured, he nevertheless keenly resented any 
 ungenerous reflection on his father's memory. 
 
 Colonel James Glencairn Burns married first, in April 
 1818, Sarah, daughter of James Eobinson of Sunderland, who 
 died at Neemuch, in India, on the 7th November 1821, at the 
 age of twenty-four. Of their marriage were born a son, 
 Eobert Shaw, who died in India, on the llth December 
 1821, aged eighteen months ; also two daughters, of whom one, 
 Jean Isabella, 'died at sea, 5th June 1823, in her fifth year. 
 
 Sarah, the surviving daughter, born 2d November 1821, 
 married at Cheltenham on the 24th July 1847, Dr Berkeley 
 Westropp Hutchinson, a native of Galway, by whom she has 
 
62 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF 
 
 had a son, Eobert Burns, and three daughters, Annie, Violet 
 Burns, and Margaret Constance Burns. 
 
 Eobert Bums Hutchinson, only son of Dr Berkeley Hutch- 
 inson and Sarah Burns, was educated at Christ's Hospital, 
 London. In 1877 he sailed for Assam, there to engage in 
 business as a tea planter. He is the only male descendant 
 of the poet now living. 
 
 Colonel James Burns married, secondly, in June 1828, 
 Mary, daughter of Captain Beckett of Enfield ; she died at 
 Gravesend, 13th November 1844, aged fifty-two. Her only 
 child, Annie Beckett, born 7th September 1830, resides at 
 Cheltenham, unmarried. 
 
 The armorial bearings of the family of Burnes, granted to 
 Dr James Burnes, K.H., and other descendants of his paternal 
 grandfather, are in the Lyon register recorded thus : 
 
 "Arms. Ermine, on a bend azure, an escocheon, or, charged 
 
 with a hollybush, surmounted by a crook and bugle horn 
 
THE FAMILY OF ROBERT BURNS. 63 
 
 saltyreways, all proper, being the device of the poet Burns 
 and on a chief gules, the White Horse of Hanover, between 
 two Eastern crowns, or, in allusion to the Guelphic Order, 
 conferred on James Burnes, K.H., by King William IV., and 
 to the distinguished services of him and his brothers in India. 
 
 "Crests. On the dexter side, one of augmentation, in 
 allusion to the devotion to their country, shown by the late 
 Lieut.-Colonel Sir Alexander Burnes, C.B., and Lieutenant 
 Charles Burnes. Out of a mural crown, per pale, vert, and 
 gules, the rim inscribed " Cabool," in letters argent, a demi- 
 eagle displayed, transfixed by a javelin in bend sinister 
 proper ; on the sinister, that previously borne, viz. : Issuant 
 from an Eastern crown or, an oak tree shivered, renewing its 
 foliage proper. 
 
 "Motto. Ob Patriam Vulnera Passi." 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Alloway, tomb of "William Burnes, 
 
 poet's father, 37, 38. 
 Anderson, Alexander, M.D., 31. 
 Anderson, Elizabeth, 44. 
 Anderson, Harriet, 31. 
 Anderson, James, 44. 
 Armour, Adam, 32. 
 Armour, James, 57. 
 Armour, Jean, 53, 57, 58. 
 Armour, Robert, 32. 
 Armour, William, 32. 
 Arundel, Beatrix, Countess of, 5. 
 Athelstan, King, 5. 
 A thole, Duke of, 54. 
 Auld, David, 37. 
 
 Banner-man, Rev. William, 50. 
 
 Beattie, Catherine, 13. 
 
 Beattie, Professor James, 13. 
 
 Beckett, Captain, of Enlield, 62. 
 
 Beckett, Mary, 62. 
 
 Begg, Agnes, 4, 42, 45. 
 
 Begg, Andrew, 43, 44. 
 
 Begg, Bruce, 44. 
 
 Begg, Edward, 42, 45. 
 
 Begg, Elizabeth, 44. 
 
 Begg, Gilbert, 42, 44, 45. 
 
 Begg, Grace, 44. 
 
 Begg, Isabella, 4, 42, 43, 45. 
 
 Begg, James, 42-45. 
 
 Begg, Jane, 43, 45. 
 
 Begg, Janet, 43. 
 
 Begg, John, 42-44, 47. 
 
 Begg, Marion, 43. 
 
 Begg, Mary, 44, 
 
 Begg, Neil, 43. 
 
 Begg, Rev. Bruce Beveridge, 44. 
 
 Begg, Robert, 43. 
 
 Begg, Robert Burns, 43-45. 
 
 Begg, Walter, 43. 
 
 Begg, William, 42-44. 
 
 Bentinck, Lord William, 29. 
 
 Bernis, lands of, 6. 
 
 Beveridge, Bruce, 44. 
 
 Bcveridge, Grace, 44. 
 
 Beveridge, James, of Balado, 44. 
 
 Blantyre, Lord, 47, 48. 
 
 Brand, Charles, 17. 
 
 Brand, David, 17. 
 
 Brand, James, 17. 
 
 Brand, William, 17. 
 
 Breckenridge, James, 48. 
 
 Breckenridge, Jean, 48. 
 
 Broun, Agnes, 39-41, 51. 
 
 Broun, Gilbert, 40. 
 
 Brown, George, 14. 
 
 Bruce, King Robert, 6, 54. 
 
 Brunhouse, Robert del, 6. 
 
 Burnes, arms of family, 62, 63. 
 
 Burnes, Dr James, 24-26. 
 
 Burnes, Eustace de, 5. 
 
 Burnes family, tombstone inscrip- 
 tions of, 7, 8, 37, 38. 
 
 Burnes, Godric de, 5. 
 
 Burnes, John, servitor to the laird of 
 Thornton, 7. 
 
 Burnes, Lieut. -Colonel Sir Alexander, 
 28-30. 
 
 Burnes, Provost James, 19-21. 
 
 Burnes, Roger de, 5. 
 
 Burnes, Sir John de, 6. 
 
 Burnes, William de, 6. 
 
 Burneshurgh, battle of, 5. 
 
 Burneshead, lands of, 5. 
 
 Burness, or Burnes, family name of, 
 4-8. 
 
 Burness, parish of, in Orkney, 6. 
 
 Burness, Patrick, 7. 
 
 Burnestead, lands of, 5. 
 
 Burneston, land? of, 5. 
 
 Burnhouse of Kair, lands of, 6. 
 
 Burns, Col. James Glencairn, 60, 61. 
 i Burns, Colonel William Nicol, 60, 61. 
 
 Burns, Gilbert, 46-48. 
 
 Burns, Robert, poet, 52-58. 
 
 BUIIXES, FAMILY OF, tenants in Bog- 
 
 jorgan. 
 Christian, 9. 
 Elspet, 9. 
 Isobel, 10. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 65 
 
 Burnes Continued. 
 
 James, 9, 10. 
 
 James, in Inches, 9. 
 
 Janet, 10. 
 
 Jean, 10. 
 
 John, 3, 8, 10, 11, 17. 
 
 Margaret, 10. 
 
 Mary. 10. 
 
 Robert, 9, 10. 
 
 Sarah, 10. 
 . William, 7-11. 
 
 IirttXEsi, FAMILY OF, in BrawUmnuir 
 and Boghead. 
 
 Alexander, 14. 
 
 Catherine, 13, 14. 
 
 Christian, 12. 
 
 Colonel John, 12. 
 
 David, 13, U. 
 
 Elizabeth, 14, 15. 
 
 Elspeth, 12. 
 
 George, 12-15. 
 
 Helen, 14. 
 
 Isabel, 14. 
 
 James, 11-14. 
 
 Jean, 14. 
 
 John, 14, 15. 
 
 Margaret, 13, 14. 
 
 Mary, 14. 
 
 Rev. David, 14. 
 
 Robert, 12, 16. 
 
 Thomas, 12, 13. 
 
 William, 12-14. 
 HURNES, FAMILY OF, in Clock iia.Jull. 
 
 Elspet, 17. 
 
 Frances, 32. 
 
 George, 31. 
 
 Isobel, 17. 
 
 James, 17. 
 
 Jean, 17. 
 
 John, 32. 
 
 Margaret, 16. 
 
 Mary, 17. 
 
 Robert, 3, 16, 31-33, 35. 
 
 William, 18, 32-34, 36. 
 BUKNES, FAMILY OF, in JSlfhill. 
 
 Anne, 15, 16. 
 
 Catherine, 16. 
 
 Charlotte, 16. 
 
 Christian, 15. 
 
 David, 16. 
 
 Elizabeth, 15, 16. 
 
 George, 9, 15, 16. 
 
 Helen, 9, 15, 16. 
 
 Hugh, 16. 
 
 Isabel, 16. 
 
 James, 15, 16. 
 
 Jean, 15. 
 
 Burnes Cont inued. 
 
 John, 15, 16. 
 
 Magdalene, 16. 
 
 Margaret, 16. 
 
 Mary, 16. 
 
 Robert, 15, 16. 
 
 William, 15. 
 BUKNT.S, FAMILY OF, in Mont'i'ose. 
 
 Adam, 27, 28. 
 
 Adam Gray, 28. 
 
 Adamina Horatia, 28. 
 
 Alexander Holmes, 27. 
 
 Alexander Horatio, 27, 28. 
 
 Alexander Plunkett, 28. 
 
 Anne, 19, 21, 28. 
 
 Captain Hamilton Furquhar, 27. 
 
 Cecilia, 24. 
 
 Charlotte Elizabeth, 31. 
 
 Christian, 19. 
 
 Dalhousie Holmes, 27. 
 
 David, 18, 31. 
 
 Dr James, 24-26, 62, 63. 
 
 Edward, 24. 
 
 Elizabeth, 18, 19, 21. 
 
 Ernest, 28. 
 
 Fitz-James Holmes, 26, 27. 
 
 George, 19, 24, 26, 28. 
 
 Holland Ward, 27. 
 
 Isabella, 26. 
 
 James, 17-20, 28, 31. 
 
 Jane, 22. 
 
 Jean, 18. 
 
 John, 19. 
 
 Lieut. -Col. Sir Alexander, C. B. 
 3, 28-30. 
 
 Lieutenant Charles, 31. 
 
 Margaret, 18, 21. 
 
 Mary, 28. 
 
 Napier Anderson, 28. 
 
 Robert, 19. 
 
 Sarah, 19. 
 
 Sidney Holmes, 27. 
 
 Sophia Holmes, 26. 
 
 Thomas, 18. 
 
 William Manle, 24. 
 BUKXS, FAMILY OF, in Ayrsliir-'. 
 
 Agnes, 41, 48, 50. 
 
 Annabella, 41, 42. 
 
 Anne, 48, 50. 
 
 Annie Beckett, 62. 
 
 Arthur John, 49. 
 
 Clementina, 49. 
 
 Colonel James, 60, 61. 
 
 Colonel William Xicol, 60, 61. 
 
 Edith, 50. 
 
 Eliza, 59, 60. 
 
 Elizabeth, 58. 
 
6G 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Burns Continued. 
 Frances, 50. 
 Francis, 58. 
 Gilbert, 4, 17, 33, 35, 36, 41, 42, 
 
 46-48, 50. 
 Helen, 48. 
 
 Isabella, 41, 42, 47, 48, 50, 56. 
 James, 48. 
 Jane, 50. 
 Janet, 48. 
 Jean, 48, 58, 61. 
 John, 41, 45, 50. 
 Kenneth, 50. 
 Maxwell, 58. 
 Rev. Thomas, D.D., 49. 
 Robert, 50, 58, 59, 61. 
 Robert (poet), 3, 4, 33, 34, 38, 41, 
 
 46, 47, 51-58. 
 Sarah, 61. 
 William, 36-41, 45, 46, 48, 51. 
 
 Cabool, 30. 
 
 Caird, Anne, 17. 
 
 Caird, Jean, 17. 
 
 Caird, John, 17. 
 
 Caird, Margaret, 17. 
 
 Caird, Mary, 17. 
 
 Caird, Robert, 17. 
 
 Callanan, Jane, 48. 
 
 Campbell, David, 43. 
 
 Campbell, Dr, of Ayr, 3<>. 
 
 Campbell, Mary, 52. - 
 
 Carnegie, Elizabeth, 18. 
 
 Carnegie, William, 18. 
 
 Ciochnahill, farm of, 32, 33. 
 
 Constable, Lady Winifred Maxwell, 34. 
 
 Cooper, Augustus, 22. 
 
 Cooper, Mabel, 22. 
 
 Cooper, Rev. Augustus, 22. 
 
 Cowie, Mr, of Sundridge Hall, 4, 33. 
 
 Crabbie, Christian, 12. 
 
 Crawford, Mr, of Doonside, 36. 
 
 Crone, Catherine, 60. 
 
 Croue, Richard, of Summer Hill, 60. 
 
 Carrie, Andrew, of Crlassmount, 44. 
 
 Ctirrie, Magdalene, 44. 
 
 Cushnie, Anne, 12. 
 
 Cuthbertson, Anne, 45. 
 
 Dallas, Robert, 10. 
 
 Dairy mple, James, sheriff - clerk of 
 
 Ayr, 51. 
 
 Dalfymple, Rev. W., 41, 51. 
 Dalrymple, Sir Hew, 49. 
 Davidson, Margaret, 11. 
 Davidson, Dr, 18. 
 Dayman, Rev. P. Donnithorne, 50. 
 
 Dayman, Sibylla, 50. 
 
 Dickson, Sarah, 49. 
 
 Dinning, farm of, 42, 47. 
 
 Dost Mohammed, 29. 
 
 Douglas, Dr, 18. 
 
 Douglas, Sir Alexander, of Glenbervie, 7 . 
 
 Dunlop, Mrs, of Dunlop, 58. 
 
 Duthie, Andrew, 16. 
 
 Bales, Lionel, 22. 
 
 Eales, Major George, 22. 
 
 Bales, Maude, 22. 
 
 Edward I., 5, 6. 
 
 Edward II., 6. 
 
 Edward, John, 16. 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen, 5. 
 
 Elles, Andrew, 49, 50. 
 
 Biles, Clementina, 49, 50. 
 
 Elles, Gilbert, 49. 
 
 Elles, James, 49. 
 
 Elles, Malcolm, 49. 
 
 Elles, Rev. James, of Saltcoats, 49. 
 
 Ellisland, farm of, 54. 
 
 Everitt, Bartholomew James, 59. 
 
 Everitt, Martha, 59, 60. 
 
 Everitt, Mrs, 4. 
 
 Falconer, Alexander, 14. 
 
 Falconer, Archibald, 14. 
 
 Falconer, Catherine, 14. 
 
 Falconer, David, 14. 
 
 Falconer, Francis Keith, Earl of Kin- 
 
 tore, 12. 
 
 Falconer, George, 14. 
 Falconer, Isabel, 14. 
 Falconer, Jean, 14, 17. 
 Falconer, John, 14. 
 Falconer, Margaret, 11, 12, 14, 17. 
 Falconer, Robert, 14. 
 Falconer, Sir Alexander, of Halkerton, 
 
 12. 
 
 Falconer, William, 14. 
 Ferguson, Provost of Doonholm, 36, 37. 
 Fergusson, Robert, poet, 54. 
 Ferrier, Alexander, 50. 
 Ferrier, Jemima, 50. 
 Forbes, Adelaide, 24. 
 Forbes, Captain Charles, 21, 24. 
 Forbes, Louisa Emily, 21. 
 Forster, Jean, 18. 
 Fortescue, M., Esq., 41. 
 Fotheringham, Christian, 8. 
 Fotlieringham, family of, at Powrie, 8. 
 Fotheringham, William, 16. 
 
 , Gait, William, 41. 
 ! Gavin, Elspeth, 12. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Gibson, James, of Liverpool, 4. 
 
 Glegg, Adam, 20. 
 
 Glegg, Elizabeth, 20. 
 
 Glegg, family of, 20. 
 
 Gleig, Adam, 20. 
 
 Gleig, Isobel, 20. 
 
 Gleig, John, 20. 
 
 Gleig, Rev. George, Bishop of Brechin, 
 
 21. 
 
 Gleig, Rev. George, of Arbroath, 21. 
 Glenbervie, 7, 8. 
 
 Glencairn, James, Earl of, 53, 60. 
 Gordon, Duke of, 54. 
 Gordon, Harry, 27. 
 Gordon, Horatia, 27. 
 Graham, Mr, of Fintry, 54. 
 Grant, Clementina, 49. 
 Grant, Rev. James F., 49. 
 Grant, Sir Alexander, of Monymu.sk, 
 
 49. 
 
 Greig, Anne, 19. 
 Greig, John, 19. 
 Grub, Margaret, 18. 
 Outline, A., 18. 
 
 Haldane, Janet, 44. 
 
 Haldane, Mary, 44. 
 
 Halkerton, Falconers of, the, 12. 
 
 Hardy, Dalton, 24. 
 
 Harris, Mary Jane, 28. 
 
 Henderson, Margaret, 17. 
 
 Henry VIII., 5. 
 
 Hevvett, Captain T. M., 21. 
 
 Hogg, Eleanor, 44. 
 
 Holland, Alexander, 22. 
 
 Holland, Cecilia Agnes, 23, 24. 
 
 Holland, Charles W. D., 23. 
 
 Holland, Col. Trevenon James, C. B.,23. 
 
 Holland, Conrstance, 22. 
 
 Holland, Lieut. -Col. James, 23, 29. 
 
 Holland, Major Edward Burnes, R.E., 
 
 22, 23. 
 Holmes, Major-General Sir George, 
 
 K.C.B., 26. 
 Holmes, Sophia, 26. 
 Hudson, Anne, 18. 
 Hudson, Christian, 18. 
 Hudson, Elizabeth, 18. 
 Hudson, George, 18. 
 Hudson, John, 18. 
 Hudson, Margaret, 18. 
 Hudson, Sarah, 18. 
 Hudson, William, 18. 
 Hutchinson, Annie, 62. 
 Hutchinson, Dr Berkeley Westropp, 
 
 61, 62. 
 Hutchinson, Jane, 44. 
 
 Hutchinson, Margaret, 62. 
 Hutchinson, Mrs Sarah Burns, 4, 62. 
 Hutchinson, Robert Burns, 62. 
 Hutchinson, Violet, 62. 
 
 Inchbreck, farm of, 7. 
 
 Jarbo, Emma, 31. 
 Jarbo, Rev. Dr, 31. 
 Jenkinson, Mr, 57. 
 John, King of England, 5. 
 Johnstone, Richard, 43. 
 
 Keith, George, tenth Earl Marischal, 
 
 34, 35. 
 
 Keith, Isabella, 3, 16. 
 Keith, Mrs Anne, 3. 
 Keith of Craig, family of, 3. 
 Keith, Right Hon. Sir Robert Murray. 
 
 3. 
 
 Kerr, James, 9. 
 Knox, James, 17. 
 
 Laurie, Rev. Dr, of Loudoun, 53. 
 
 Leburn, Mary, 44. 
 
 Ley, David, 14. 
 
 Ley, James, 14. 
 
 Ley, Jane, 14. 
 
 Ley, Margaret, 14. 
 
 Ley, Mary, 14. 
 
 Livingstone, Alexander, 50. 
 
 Livingstone, Henry, 50. 
 
 Lochlea, farm of, 37. 
 
 | M'Bean, Jean, 18. 
 
 M'Kay, John S., 28. 
 
 M'Kay, Norman H., 28. 
 
 M'Lehose, Mrs (Clarinda), 54. 
 
 Major, Adelaide, 24. 
 
 Major, Captain Francis Ward, 24. 
 
 Major, Captain John Philip, 24. 
 
 Major, Francis Forbes, 24. 
 
 Major, Philip Charles, 24. 
 
 Major, Violet, 24. 
 
 Margaret, Queen of Malcolm Canmore, 
 8. 
 
 Maxwell, Dr, 58. 
 
 Meldrum, Isabel, 12. 
 
 Melvin, Margaret, 17. 
 
 Menteith, John, of Bernis, 6. 
 
 Metcalfe, Lord, 60. 
 
 Middleton, Robert, in Broombank, 9. 
 
 Miller, Mr, of Dalswinton, 54. 
 
 Mitchell, Thomas, 16. 
 I Mohammed, Shah of Persia, 29. 
 I Mollison, Alexander, 16. 
 ! Morham Muir, farm of, 47. 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 1, farm of, 40, 52. 
 Mount Oliphant, farm of, 36, 37. 
 Murdoch, John, schoolmaster, 38, 46, 
 
 51. 
 Murray, Sir William, of Oehtertyre, 
 
 54. 
 
 Nicholas IV., Pope, 6. 
 Nicholson, Margaret, 23. 
 
 Paul, Anne, 10. 
 Pirie, J., 18. 
 Preston, George, 43. 
 Price, Esther, 26. 
 
 Reith, Catherine, 14. 
 Reith, Christian, 14. 
 Reith, David, 14. 
 Reith, James, 14. 
 Reith, Jane, 14. 
 Reith, Jean, 14. 
 Reith, John, 14. 
 Reith, Margaret, 14. 
 Riach, Margaret, 23. 
 Riddel, Mrs, of Glenriddel, 58. 
 Robinson, Sarah, 61. 
 Runjeet Singh, 29. 
 
 Scinde, Burnes' travels in, 29. 
 Scott, Isabella, 27. 
 Scott, William, 27. 
 Shah Shoojah restored to Cabool, 30. 
 Shaw, Sir James, 48. 
 Sheritt, James, 17. 
 Sherwood, Anne, 59. 
 Smith, Elizabeth, 14. 
 Smith, George, 17. 
 Stevenson, Alexander, 50. 
 Stevenson, Douglas, 50. 
 Stryvelyn, Jacoba de, 5. 
 Stryvelyn, John de, 5. 
 Stuart, David, of Inchbreck, 7. 
 Stuart, Jane Gordon, 15. 
 Stuart, John, LL.D., 15. 
 Stuart, Mary, 15. 
 Stuart, Professor, of Inchbreck, 7. 
 Stuart, Robert, 15. 
 
 Stuart, William, proprietor of Bog- 
 jorgan, 8, 9. 
 
 Taylor, David, 16. 
 
 Taylor, Elspet, 9. 
 
 Taylor, William, tenant in White- 
 bog, 9. 
 
 Tennant, John, 51. 
 Thomson, George, 54. 
 Thomson, Helen, 9. 
 Thomson, William, in Drumlithie, 9. 
 
 Urf{uhart, William, 14. 
 
 Vannan, Andrew, 44, 45. 
 Vannan, Eliza, 44. 
 
 Walker, Alexander, 17. 
 
 Walker, Archibald, 16. 
 
 Walker, Isobel, 17. 
 
 Walker, James, 17. 
 
 Wallace, Jean, 32. 
 
 Ward, Captain William, 21. 
 
 Watson, David, in Polburn, 9. 
 
 Watson, Elspet, 17. 
 
 Watson, Henry, 1 7. 
 
 Watson. James, 17. 
 
 Watson', Jean, 19. 
 
 Watson, Mary, 17. 
 
 Watson, Robert, of Sheilhill, ] 9. 
 
 Whish, Ada, 22. 
 
 Whish, Albert F., 22. 
 
 Whish, Annette, 22. 
 
 Whish, Arthur R., 22. 
 
 Whish, Captain Frederick, R.A., 21. 
 
 Whish, Clara Salter, 22. 
 
 Whish, Cyril Beresford, 22. 
 
 Whish, Eliza, 22, 23. 
 
 Whish, Ernest Burnes, 22. 
 
 Whish, Evelyn, 22. 
 
 Whish, Flora Thornborough, 22. 
 
 Whish, Hugh Dudley, 22. 
 
 Whish, Kathleen, 22. 
 
 Whish, Lieutenant Albert, R.N., 4, 
 
 21. 
 Whish, Lieut. Cecil Holland, R.N., 
 
 23. 
 
 Whish, Lieut. -General Richard, 21. 
 Whish, Matilda Emily, 22. 
 Whish, Rev. Richard, Rector of 
 
 North wold, 21. 
 
 Whish, Sir William S., K.C.B., 21. 
 Wilson, Agnes, 43. 
 Winifred, Miss, 43. 
 Woodward, Rev. John, 15. 
 
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