Key details
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/03/03/14
- Alt. number
- 3.3001
- Date
- 1762
- On display
- Yes
- Creator
- Kincaid, Alexander (Printer)
- Archive number
- NTS/02/25/BRN/03/03/14
- Alt. number
- 3.3001
- Date
- 1762
- On display
- Yes
- Creator
- Kincaid, Alexander (Printer)
Description
The family bible of William Burnes, father of the Poet, containing a register of his family. The dates of birth of himself and of his wife, of their marriage, and of the births of their seven sons and daughters, are entered in the hand of William Burnes. The Poet himself was to write in later years the date of his father's death.
Archive information
Place of creation
Themes
Hierarchy
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Letters, documents and ephemera regarding the family of Robert Burns
(
a sub-fonds is a subdivision in the archival material)
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Letters and Documents Related to William Burnes
(
materials grouped together because they are of a similar type)
- William Burnes' family bible
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