Old Photograph Harthill Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses and people in Harthill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Elizabeth Burns, born 1784, died, 1817, was the illegitimate daughter of the poet Robert Burns. She married John Bishop, overseer at the Polkemmet estate by Harthill, and lived at the Polkemmet estate half way house on the existing main road B7066. Buried in Whitburn Parish Church graveyard. White headstone still in place.



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