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Robert Burnes
Robert Burnes or Robert Burness (1719-1789) was an uncle of the poet Robert Burns on his father's side, who left the family farm of Clochnahill or Clokenhill in Kincardineshire with his younger brother William Burnes. He found work at the Lochridge or Lochrig limestone quarries and lime kilns that lay near Byrehill Farm near Stewarton.〔(1856 OS Map ) Retrieved : 2013-08-05〕〔Jackson, Page 22〕 He may have been a gardener〔(Burns Family Tree ) Retrieved : 2013-08-05〕 later a teacher and probably a land steward on the nearby Robertland Estate.〔〔〔Boyle, Page 133〕 Robert Burns referred to his relation as ''Poor Uncle Robert''.〔
==Life and background==
Robert is said to have gone to England or Southern Scotland at first, working for some time as a gardener,〔 having supposedly parted from his brother on the summit of Garvock Tap.〔Mackay, Page 23〕 He then lived for several years, arriving around 1748,〔Boyle, Page 90〕 in a cot house at Titwood Farm in Dreghorn Parish,〔 where he worked in the summer months〔 as a quarryman and possibly being apprenticed at some point as a stonemason.〔 His brother William recorded in a letter dated 1781 that his brother lived in Stewarton and that the circumstances were ''"rather indifferent"''.〔Strawhorn, Page 29〕
Robert had severe rheumatism or arthritis〔 that prevented him from doing hard physical work in the cold winter months and to maintain himself and his family he opened a school in his home for the sons of local farmers.〔 When his condition became too painful and debilitating he moved to a house or to the Buck's Head Inn located at the Buck's Head Close just off the main street in Stewarton and later he moved to another house in the town, the location of which has been forgotten,〔 however Caldhame Farm on the Robertland Estate was the home of a Robert Burnes, land steward and this may have been Burns' 'Uncle Robert'.〔
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