Highland mary robert burns6/1/2023 ![]() She gained this position through the offices of Miss Arbukle of Campbeltown who had married into the Eglinton family. From Mauchline, she moved to Coilsfield House, later Montgomery Castle, where she was employed as a dairy-maid or byres-woman. Gavin Hamilton's married daughter, Mrs Todd, recalled Mary Campbell coming to look after her brother Alexander as a nursemaid in 1785, describing Mary as 'very pleasant and winning', though not a beauty. ![]() She is said to have worked as a young servant girl in Irvine. She was described as a ".sweet, sprightly, blue-eyed creature." In her early teens, she went to Ayrshire and became a nursemaid in Gavin Hamilton's house in Mauchline. David Campbell, minister of that parish and a relative of her mother's. She is said to have spent some time at Lochranza on Arran, living with the Rev. Her three siblings, Robert, Annie and Archibald, were born at Campbeltown. In 1768, the family moved to Campbeltown then later, finally, to Greenock. ![]() Mary lived with her parents, first, near her birthplace of Dunoon on the Cowal Peninsula. ![]() Monument erected in 1842 over the grave of Highland Mary in the old West Kirkyard, Greenock ![]()
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