Tour Scotland Video Robert Burns Event St Andrews Castle Fife

Tour Scotland video of a Robert Burns Event at St Andrews Castle, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. A video of Karen Nichols and Niall M. Robertson giving their presentation called; Robert Burns and Jean Armour the Bard and the woman in his life; illustrated by tales, songs and poems. Jean Armour, born 25 February 1765, died 26 March 1834, also known as the " Belle of Mauchline ", was the wife of the poet Robert Burns. She inspired many of his poems and bore him nine children, three of whom survived into adulthood. Jean was born in Mauchline, Ayrshire in 1765, she was second oldest of the eleven children of stonemason James Armour and Mary Smith Armour. She met Robert Burns on a drying green in Mauchline around 1784 when she chased his dog away from her laundry. According to Armour's testimony in 1827, she met Burns again at a local dance and they subsequently " fell acquainted ".

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