Robert Burns
1759 to 1796
8 documented presences
7 places
Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for Robert Burns across 7 places, from 1759 to 1796. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Robert Burns was documented, and when
25 January 1759exact date
Allowayattested
“Robert Burns was born on 25 January 1759, two miles (3 km) south of Ayr in Alloway, Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland.”
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26 January 1759exact date
Auld Kirk of Ayrattested
“On January 26, 1759, the day after he was born, Robert Burns was baptised in the Auld Kirk of Ayr by minister William Dalrymple.”
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December 1781month
Irvine, Ayrshireattested
“In December 1781, Burns moved temporarily to Irvine to learn to become a flax-dresser, but during the workers' celebrations for New Year 1781/1782 (which included Burns as a participant) the flax shop caught fire and was burnt to the gro…”
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1785year
Mossgiel Farmattested
“Robert and Gilbert made an ineffectual struggle to keep on the farm, but after its failure they moved to Mossgiel Farm, near Mauchline, in March, which they maintained and resided in from 1785.”
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1785year
Mauchlineattested
“Robert and Gilbert made an ineffectual struggle to keep on the farm, but after its failure they moved to Mossgiel Farm, near Mauchline, in March, which they maintained and resided in from 1785.”
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February 1788month
Edinburghattested
“On his return from Edinburgh in February 1788, he resumed his relationship with Jean Armour and they married in March 1788.”
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1791year
Dumfriesattested
“It is mostly preserved as when Burns and his young family lived there.) Burns gave up the farm in 1791 to move to Dumfries.”
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21 July 1796exact date
Dumfriesattested
“On the morning of 21 July 1796, Burns died in Dumfries, at the age of 37.”
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Places Robert Burns is documented in
Dumfries2 presences · 1791 to 1796
Edinburgh1 presence · 1788Alloway1 presence · 1759
Auld Kirk of Ayr1 presence · 1759
Irvine, Ayrshire1 presence · 1781
Mauchline1 presence · 1785
Mossgiel Farm1 presence · 1785
Other places tied to Robert Burns in the record
In each of these, a source puts Robert Burns and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Robert Burns was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1762 to 1775period
Kirkoswald, South Ayrshirementioned
“In 1775, he was sent to finish his education with a tutor at Kirkoswald, where he met Peggy Thompson (born 1762), to whom he wrote two songs, "Now Westlin' Winds" and "I Dream'd I Lay".”
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1777 to 1784period
Lochlea (South Ayrshire)mentioned
“At Whitsun, 1777, he removed his large family from the unfavourable conditions of Mount Oliphant to the farm at Lochlea, near Tarbolton, where they stayed until William Burnes's death in 1784.”
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1777 to 1784period
Tarboltonmentioned
“At Whitsun, 1777, he removed his large family from the unfavourable conditions of Mount Oliphant to the farm at Lochlea, near Tarbolton, where they stayed until William Burnes's death in 1784.”
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1784year
Mauchlinementioned
“In mid-1784 Burns came to know a group of girls known collectively as The Belles of Mauchline, one of whom was Jean Armour, the daughter of a stonemason from Mauchline.”
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14 April 1786exact date
Colony of Jamaicamentioned
“As Burns lacked the funds to pay for his passage to Jamaica, Gavin Hamilton suggested that he should "publish his poems in the meantime by subscription, as a likely way of getting a little money to provide him more liberally in necessari…”
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14 April 1786exact date
Kilmarnockmentioned
“As Burns lacked the funds to pay for his passage to Jamaica, Gavin Hamilton suggested that he should "publish his poems in the meantime by subscription, as a likely way of getting a little money to provide him more liberally in necessari…”
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October 1786month
Campbeltownmentioned
“In October 1786, Mary and her father sailed from Campbeltown to visit her brother in Greenock.”
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October 1786month
Greenockmentioned
“In October 1786, Mary and her father sailed from Campbeltown to visit her brother in Greenock.”
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27 November 1786exact date
Edinburghmentioned
“His opinion that I would meet with encouragement in Edinburgh for a second edition, fired me so much, that away I posted for that city, without a single acquaintance, or a single letter of introduction." On 27 November 1786 Burns borrowe…”
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1787year
Edinburghmentioned
“In Edinburgh, in early 1787, he met James Johnson, a struggling music engraver and music seller with a love of old Scots songs and a determination to preserve them.”
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1791year
Colony of Jamaicamentioned
“His relationship with Nancy concluded in 1791 with a final meeting in Edinburgh before she sailed to Jamaica for what turned out to be a short-lived reconciliation with her estranged husband.”
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1791year
Edinburghmentioned
“His relationship with Nancy concluded in 1791 with a final meeting in Edinburgh before she sailed to Jamaica for what turned out to be a short-lived reconciliation with her estranged husband.”
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1795year
Glasgowmentioned
“Burns sent the poem anonymously in 1795 to the Glasgow Magazine.”
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