Agnes Burns

Agnes Burns
Stephenstown Pond
Born	30 September 1762[1] Alloway,[2] Scotland
Died	March 1834 Dundalk, Republic of Ireland
Occupation	Dairymaid
Spouse	William Galt
Parent(s)	William Burnes Agnes Broun

Agnes Burns or Agnes Galt was the eldest sister of Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns. She was born in 1762 at the Alloway Cottage^[2] in South Ayrshire to William Burnes and Agnes Broun. She did not adopt the spelling 'Burnes'. At the advanced age of forty-two, late for the times in which she lived, she married William Galt at Dinning in 1804^[3][4] who had worked for her brother Gilbert at Dinning Farm in Nithsdale.^[3][5]