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Dumfriesshire / Re: BURNS - Dumfries info required
« on: Friday 19 April 13 02:05 BST (UK)  »
I am in occasional contact with two of James's grandchildren  -  (*)

Names of living people removed to protect people's identity and privacy. Please use the Private Message service to exchange personal details such as these please  :)

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Dumfriesshire / Re: BURNS - Dumfries info required
« on: Thursday 18 April 13 13:18 BST (UK)  »
Sorry Kenda1.  All I know is that the 1861 census names Peter's mother Jane  -  age 60  -  occupation Pirnwinder (I must Google that) and born Ireland.

Peter's death certificate, informed by eldest son James, gave Peter's parents' details as --------------
He died 24/1/1898 aged 74 at 2 Nith Place of cyctitis.  In 1891, he and his wife Grace and my (as yet) unmarried grandfather Robert were at 3 Nith Place.  As I've said before, every census gives a conflicting age.

His children were:
Thomasina Grace b1/5/1856
James b27/5/1858
Charles William b 2/7/1860
Ann b28/6/1862
Robert b 6/1/1867
Janet Berwick b 3/7/1870

Are we related?

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Dumfriesshire / Re: BURNS - Dumfries info required
« on: Thursday 30 December 10 07:02 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry  -  more detail.  Your (our) Peter Burns has no connection with the poet.  He is buried with Grace and my grandfather Robert in St Michael's "New" Cemetery off Craigie Road.

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Dumfriesshire / Re: BURNS - Dumfries info required
« on: Thursday 30 December 10 06:55 GMT (UK)  »
I have just stumbled on this posting.  My grandfather was Robert Burns, aged 4 on the 1871 census.  My understanding is that Peter was secretive about his origins.  My mother believed he had come from Ireland, probably during the famines.  Various censuses give varying birth years, and various family members have different legends of his origins.  I have a copy of a verse published in the papers on his death, calling him a "Botanical beer manufacturer".  My mother understood he was a respected herbalist who collected his own herbs.  On Robert's death, Peter's big books on herbs etc had to be sold.  Descendants of James remember the big glass herb containers.

An early census has Peter's mother, born in Ireland, living with him.

If you are still around, and are interested, I will dig out more precise information.

Bill Macpherson
Busselton
Western Australia

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