Jean Burns [née Armour]

(1765-1834)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Armour, Jean, 1765-1834 DNB: Armour, Jean (1765-1834), wife of Robert Burns and subject of poetry LBT ID: JeBurns1834 VIAF ID: 11592131 LOC ID: n97065284	B/BAP: 1765-02-25 DIED: 1834-03-26
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The wife of Robert Burns who bore him several children before they were married in a civil ceremony in 1788.
REFERENCES TO Jean Burns [née Armour]: Leigh Hunt to Mary Cowden Clarke, 18 February [1844?] in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Leigh Hunt Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 8: 1819-20 Found 1: ¶ 16 Chapter 14: 1826-32 Found 1: ¶ 41