1. William Burnes was born at either Upper Kinmonth or Clochnahill Farm, Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, and trained as a gardener at Inverugie Castle, Aberdeenshire, before moving to Ayrshire and becoming a tenant farmer.
14 Facts About William Burnes
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William Burnes retained the spelling 'Burnes' throughout his life; however, his son favoured the Ayrshire spelling of 'Burns'.
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William Burnes had received a basic education that exceeded that of most boys of his time and was very competent in the three Rs, and displayed a very neat hand.
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The Burnes family are said to have had Jacobite sympathies, illustrated by the fact that William thought it necessary to get a certificate from three Kincardineshire landlords, testifying that he was "a very well-inclined lad".
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William Burnes was a good worker and received a certificate of good character from the session clerk and minister of Dundonald.
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William Burnes was ambitious to set up as a nurseryman for himself so he feued, from Dr Alexander Campbell of Ayr,.
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William Burnes had been in addition briefly employed by the council to collect information about residents for a census that they were holding.
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Towards the end of the Mount Oliphant lease period Fergusson died and William Burnes fell behind in his rent.
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William Burnes was buried in the abandoned Alloway Kirk which he had helped to preserve, despite dying in the parish of Tarbolton.
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William Burnes taught his children reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, and history.
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William Burnes paid for the tuition of Robert and Gilbert by John Murdoch, who opened an 'adventure school' in Alloway in 1763 and taught Latin, French, and mathematics from 1765 to 1768 until Murdoch left the area.
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Robert Burns had a few years of home education until William Burnes sent him to Dalrymple Parish School during the summer of 1772.
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In 1773 William Burnes sent Robert to stay with John Murdoch for three weeks to study grammar, French, and Latin.
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William Burnes took care to find fault but seldom, and, therefore, when he did rebuke he was listened to with a kind of reverential awe.