Agnes Burns

Agnes Burns
Stephenstown Pond
Born30 September 1762[1]
Alloway,[2] Scotland
DiedMarch 1834
Dundalk, Republic of Ireland
OccupationDairymaid
SpouseWilliam Galt
Parent(s)William Burnes
Agnes Broun

Agnes Burns or Agnes Galt was the eldest sister of Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns. She was born in 1762 at the Alloway Cottage[2] in South Ayrshire to William Burnes and Agnes Broun. She did not adopt the spelling 'Burnes'. At the advanced age of forty-two, late for the times in which she lived, she married William Galt at Dinning in 1804[3][4] who had worked for her brother Gilbert at Dinning Farm in Nithsdale.[3][5]

  1. ^ Westwood, p.12
  2. ^ a b Purdie, p.59
  3. ^ a b Purdie, p. 60
  4. ^ Westwood, p. 13
  5. ^ Westwood, p. 12