Horrified to learn that such a man lay in an unmarked grave, Burns applied to the Canongate Baillies in 1787, in order to erect a headstone. An architect, Robert Burn, was commissioned to produce ...

This is a mock epitaph for William Muir (1745-1793), a miller in Tarbolton who proved to be a good friend to the Burnes family. When Jean Armour was thrown out by her family in March 1788 it was ...