Agnes Burns | |
|---|---|
 Stephenstown Pond | |
| Born | 30 September 1762[1] |
| Died | March 1834 Dundalk, Republic of Ireland |
| Occupation | Dairymaid |
| Spouse | William 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]