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Old Photograph Fairnilee Scotland
Old photograph of a cottage in Fairnilee located three miles South West of Galashiels, Scottish Borders of Scotland. Alison Cockburn was born on 8 October 1712 at Fairnilee House. In 1765 she published her lyrics to the traditional Border Ballad the Flowers of the Forest. She was the daughter of Robert Rutherfurd of Fairnalee. She married an impoverished advocate, Patrick Cockburn of Ormiston in 1731. Unable to afford a home of their own they lived for 4 years in the house of her elderly father in law. On the death of the old man they moved to Edinburgh. Her husband died on 29 April 1753, and left her a small income. She continued to mix in artistic and intellectual circles from her home in Bristo Street, on Castlehill, Edinburgh. She died on 22 November 1794. She is buried in the kirkyard of The Chapel of Ease of Buccleuch Parish Church in Edinburgh.
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