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Mary Smith Armour. Jean Armour (25 February 1765 – 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.
About this artwork. Jean Armour was the daughter of a stonemason in Mauchline, Ayrshire, where she met Robert Burns in 1784. When Jean fell pregnant Burns was reluctant to marry her but did apparently promise that he would stick by her.
24 gen 2017 · Jean Armour – The Woman Behind Robert Burns. shedoesthecity January 24, 2017. Much has been written about Robert Burns, the celebrated Scottish poet whose legacy has inspired haggis and whiskey-fuelled celebrations across the world. But what about the main influence in his life – his wife, Jean Armour?
Burns's first child, Elizabeth "Bess" Burns, was born to his mother's servant, Elizabeth Paton, while he was embarking on a relationship with Jean Armour, who became pregnant with twins in March 1786. Burns signed a paper attesting his marriage to Jean, but her father "was in the greatest distress, and fainted away".
Jean was the second child in a family of eleven of whom three died in infancy, and was the oldest daughter and the apple of her father’s eye. Jean’s parents both came from families of stone masons going back several generations, and James Armour, Jean’s father, was described as being “a tradesman of solid worth” and financially ...
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21 mar 2016 · 21 March, 2016. Catherine Czerkawska. Lurking in storage at Rozelle House Galleries in Alloway, close to the cottage where Robert Burns was born, is a portrait of the poet’s wife, Jean Armour. It is dated 1832, just two years before Jean’s death in her sixties, but is clearly of a much younger woman.
Jean Armour ( 1765–1834) by J. A. Gilfillan, 1822. Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Armour, Jean ( 1765–1834 ), wife of Robert Burns and subject of poetry, was born in Mauchline, Ayrshire, on 25 February 1765, the second of the eleven children of James Armour and his wife, Mary Smith. The family lived in Mauchline's Cowgate.
