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Jessie Lewars also known as Mrs James Thomson,〔Westwood, Page 1〕 was the youngest daughter of John Lewars, a supervisor of excise. After the death of her father aged 69, in 1789, when she was only 11 years old,〔Hill, Page 143〕 Jessie and her brother John moved to a house in Millhole Brae (now Burns Street) that lay opposite that of Robert Burns in Dumfries. Jessie was a close Burns family friend and when nearly at the age of eighteen helped the family by nursing Robert in the days leading up to his death and doing the domestic chores.〔Mackay, page 624〕〔Westwood (2008), Page 96〕 ==Life and character== Jessie had a brother and also an older sister, Mary, who married William Hyslop, a Dumfries builder.〔 As teasingly predicted by Robert Burns, Jessie married James Thomson, a lawyer or solicitor,〔Westwood (2001), Page 50〕 in Dumfries on 3 June 1799. The couple had five sons and two daughters. From the marriage of James Thomson and Jessie Lewars Thomson were born five sons and two daughters. The sons were James (1800–1820); John (1802–1834), who worked with his father; William (1805–1858), who was a captain in the merchant service, and died at the Cape of Good Hope; Thomas (1810–1859); and Alexander (1814–1859.〔(The Book of Burns ) Retrieved : 1 August 2012〕 The elder daughter, Mary (1807–1843), married George Montgomery in 1840, a Dumfries merchant. They had a son, George, and a daughter, Jessie Lewars Montgomery. Jessie, younger daughter of James Thomson and Jessie Lewars, was born on 16 June 1816 and died unmarried in September 1877.〔 Jessie lived in Dumfries at Maxwelltown, for the remainder of her life, dying at the age of 77 on 26 May 1855;〔Hill, Page 146〕 her husband, James Thomson, having died on 5 May 1849, aged 75.〔〔〔 Jessie and her husband were buried in a grave situated opposite to the Robert Burn's mausoleum in Saint Michael's churchyard, Dumfries.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jessie Lewars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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