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By 1771 , there were seven children living in the Mount Oliphant farm house with William and Agnes Burnes . Robert and Gilbert had to take their share of the farm work ; Murdoch testified that Robert was doing a man's work on the farm ...
By 1771 , there were seven children living in the Mount Oliphant farm house with William and Agnes Burnes . Robert and Gilbert had to take their share of the farm work ; Murdoch testified that Robert was doing a man's work on the farm ...
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But they had taken the pre- caution of having every member of the family properly recognized as employees of William ( ' During the whole of the time we lived in the farm of Lochlea ' , wrote Gilbert , ' he [ William Burnes ] allowed my ...
But they had taken the pre- caution of having every member of the family properly recognized as employees of William ( ' During the whole of the time we lived in the farm of Lochlea ' , wrote Gilbert , ' he [ William Burnes ] allowed my ...
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Thus Burns when he agreed to take the Ellisland farm was as much a poet as ever . His problem was to find time for both farming and writing poetry , and , when his excise appointment came through in the Autumn of 1789 , to combine ...
Thus Burns when he agreed to take the Ellisland farm was as much a poet as ever . His problem was to find time for both farming and writing poetry , and , when his excise appointment came through in the Autumn of 1789 , to combine ...
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