10 Facts About Nelly Kilpatrick

Nelly Kilpatrick stated that she had a sweet voice and was wont to sing songs as she worked in the fields.

Nelly Kilpatrick married William Bone, coachman to the Laird of Newark.

Nelly Kilpatrick had a brother, William, who erected her parents' tombstone in the old Low Coylton Kirkyard.

William Nelly Kilpatrick was the miller at Millmannoch; his wife was Hellen Craford.

Mount Oliphant is only about one and a half miles away, an easy walk for Nelly Kilpatrick to help with the harvest.

Isobel stated that Nelly Kilpatrick was the daughter of the blacksmith of Perclewan.

Nelly Kilpatrick would have been only a few weeks younger than Robert Burns, however he stated that his Nell was a year younger than himself.

Nelly Kilpatrick wrote a poem to Nell, unpublished during his life, but it appeared in his Commonplace Book and set to the tune of Nelly's favourite reel.

Nelly Kilpatrick had heard her singing a song by a local country laird's son who was courting her and felt that he could do better, so it was with Nelly in mind that he wrote his first song "Handsome Nell", given the tune "I am a Man Unmarried" in his first Commonplace Book-.

Nelly Kilpatrick has been said to figure in Burns's poem, "Halloween".