Jean Armour

Jean Armour (1761—1834) was stonemason’s daughter, born in Mauchline, Ayrshire, whom Robert Burns met and fell in love with in 1784. Jean’s father was against their marriage and she had 2 sets of twins, three of whom died, by Burns before their marriage, which was regularised by the Kirk Session in Mauchline in August 1788. She had 4 more children after their marriage,
one of whom was born after Burns’s death. She also took in Burns’s daughter by the Dumfries barmaid, Anna Park.

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