1. Lesley Baillie was a daughter of Robert Baillie and married Robert Cumming of Logie, Moray.
10 Facts About Lesley Baillie
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Lesley Baillie was a granddaughter of Anna Cunninghame and John Reid, second son of the minister of the parish, their daughter being her mother.
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Lesley Baillie had six children of whom four sons died on army service in India.
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Lesley Baillie's husband predeceased her by a good many years.
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Lesley Baillie's character was much esteemed for her benevolence of character, kindness of disposition and agreeable manners.
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Lesley Baillie died on 19 July 1843 and is buried around 100m from her home in St John's on Princes Street.
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Lesley Baillie was a descendant of the family who had owned the Orangefield estate John Dalrymple owned Orangefield in the time of Robert Burns.
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Lesley Baillie was buried in the graveyard of St John's on Princes Street, Edinburgh in one of the lower eastern terraces.
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Lesley Baillie's name was added in 1929 when the monument was re-erected on its present site by members of the Burns Federation after it had been derelict for over 50 years.
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Lesley Baillie thought highly of this song, sending it to Thomson matched to a slowed-down reel, "The Quaker's Wife", which came from Bremner's Reels, 1759.