Robert Burns Birthplace Museum.
"William Burness, the father of the poet, was a native
of Kincardineshire, and 'was thrown by early misfortunes
on the world at large.' After many years' wanderings,
he at last settled in Ayrshire, where he worked at first
as a gardener before taking a lease of some seven acres
of land near the Bridge of Doon, and beginning business
as a nurseryman. It was to a clay cottage which he
built on this land that he brought his wife, Agnes Broun,
in December 1757 ; and here the poet was born in 1759."
Extract from "Robert Burns" (Open Library)
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Address:
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum,
Murdoch's Lone,
Alloway,
Ayrshire KA7 4PQ
Website: www.nts.org.uk
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