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    Ellisland Farm lies about 6.5 mi/10.4 km northwest of Dumfries near the village of Auldgirth, located in the Parish of Dunscore, Dumfries and Galloway...
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    to the new farm house at Ellisland. In November 1790, he had written his masterpiece, the narrative poem "Tam O' Shanter". The Ellisland farm beside the...
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    on stone putting and apparently left his favourite putting stone at Ellisland Farm near Dumfries. If he saw anyone using it whilst he lived there he would...
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    Ellisland Farm was Jean Lorimer, her husband's heroine in a number of his songs under the name of Chloris. Jean lived at the nearby Kemmishall Farm with...
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    Dumfriesshire is inseparably connected with the name of Robert Burns, who farmed at Ellisland Farm on the Nith for three years, and spent the last five years of his...
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    brother-in-law Adam Armour at dead of night to Ellisland Farm in November 1791 to smash every window in the farm upon which he had inscribed verses by way...
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    The Nith at Ellisland Farm....
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  • Adam Smith, James Armour's father-in-law. Adam met Fanny Burnes at Ellisland Farm as her cousin Robert Burns had taken her and her brothers in after the...
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    associations with Robert Burns who lived for a while at the nearby Ellisland farm. The mansion house is unlisted, however the stables and hermitage are...
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    Scott. On 15 October 1791 Ainslie visited Burns and Jean Armour at Ellisland Farm at kirn-nicht or harvest home, although he never mentions it in his...
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    cells on the second floor. The poet, Robert Burns, who lived nearby at Ellisland Farm, referred to the "Great Fear" of a French invasion of the UK as well...
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    " In 1791, before her poems were published, she made the journey to Ellisland Farm, partly to visit her relations, but Burns had that day broken his arm...
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    the poet was 30 and his wife Jean Armour was 24. Francis was born at Ellisland Farm in Dunscore parish, Nithsdale on the 18 August 1789. His first and middle...
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    married and remained there for a while after Robert and Jean moved to Ellisland Farm, returning, aged four, in the company of his grandmother and aunts at...
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    sadness. As stated, the heartfelt poem "To Mary in Heaven" was written at Ellisland Farm on the third anniversary of her death. Jean Armour recalled that towards...
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    duties. A coaching stop and hostelry, the inn lay about 7 miles north of Ellisland Farm, Burns's home before the family moved into Dumfries. During their tour...
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  • Burns Cottage Drukken Steps Ellisland Farm Friars Carse The Hermitage, Friars Carse Irvine Burns Club Millmannoch Mossgiel Farm Robert Burns and the Eglinton...
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    In February 1789 Robert Burns wrote from Ellisland Farm to his cousin, James Burnes in Montrose from Ellisland, saying: "We have lost poor uncle Robert...
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    acquaintences'. They remained friends even after Burns moved to Dumfries from Ellisland Farm. In December 1794 Burns became a freeman and burgess of Sanquhar during...
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  • her request; however, she made the long journey to visit Burns at his Ellisland Farm only to find that he was away on his Excise duties and then that he...
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  • Northumbrian pipes, making some melodic changes to fit the instrument. Ellisland Farm, Dumfries "Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Glenriddell...
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    Burns Clubs. Scotland portal Brow, Dumfries and Galloway Drukken Steps Ellisland Farm, Dumfries Friar's Carse Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate Robert...
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    when he was 32 and his wife Jean Armour was 26. William was born at Ellisland Farm in Dunscore parish, shortly before the family moved to Dumfries in 1791...
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    resultant songs and poems. From 1788, Captain Robert Riddell, Burns's Ellisland Farm neighbour at the Friars Carse estate, increasingly became a mentor....
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    local and as a customs and excise officer, lived for a time at near by Ellisland Farm and is said to have carved his initials here. Scotland portal Cleeves...
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  • was living at Ellisland Farm, her father's new farm being at Kemmishall or Kemys Hall, Kirkmahoe Parish, two miles to the south of Ellisland on the opposite...
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    The poet died on 21 July 1796 and the manuscript was at that time at Ellisland Farm. In January 1797 both Commonplace books were sent to Dr James Currie...
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    limp by me, which a Fellow had just Shot" referring to the incident at Ellisland Farm involving James Thomson that nearly came to blows. Of the work Burns...
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    were present at the birth of Burns's second son, Francis Wallace, at Ellisland Farm on 18 August 1788. Her brother Robert referred to Annabella as 'Nannie'...
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    family lived at Mount Oliphant Farm, near Alloway in the autumn of 1774. In the first Commonplace Book written at Ellisland Farm he deleted "virtue" in the...
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