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Photograph of William Nichol Burns and James Glencairn Burns

Key details

Archive number
NTS/02/25/BRN/03/05/16
Alt. number
3.8084
Date
1860
On display
No
Creator
Brown, John (Photographer)

Description

Framed photograph in black and gilt frame, with glass front. Grey mount. Written on the mount 'Burns's two sons' 'from a photograph by John Brown, Portland Street, Kilmarnock'.

This photograph shows the remaining sons taken about the early 1860`s. On the left is William Nicol Burns (1791-1872) sitting beside his sole surviving brother James Glencairn Burns (1794-1865). Both brothers died in Cheltenham, England. They are the third and fourth sons of Robert Burns.

Archive information

Hierarchy

  1. Letters, documents and ephemera regarding the family of Robert Burns ( )
  2. Ephemera, postcards and photographs relating to the descendants of Robert Burns ( )
  3. Photograph of William Nichol Burns and James Glencairn Burns
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