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Jean Armour RoomRobert Burns and Jean Armour met in the village of Mauchline in 1785. Following a rollercoaster courtship they married twice within 3 years. Two rooms upstairs in the present day museum were occupied by the couple during 1788. This was their first married home. The adjoining house belonged to Dr John MacKenzie, friend and doctor of Burns. Diagonally opposite Burns House is Nanse Tinnock’s Inn mentioned by Burns in The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer and The Holy Fair. The poet is said to have frequented the inn and may even have recited new compositions for the first time within its walls. Jean Armour Room, Mauchline
This room was the first marital home of Robert and Jean Burns. Overlooking what was then the main road north to Kilmarnock, the house is only a short distance from Jean’s family home on Cowgate. Although Burns would return here from trips to Edinburgh and Nithsdale, it was Jean who spent most time here from the Spring of 1788 until late November when Ellisland Farm, Robert and Jean’s first proper family home, had been made ready. Jean gave birth to twin daughters in this room, both of whom died in early infancy. They are buried in the kirkyard opposite. |
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