; also his daughter - the poet's bonnie Mary Morison - who died 29th June, 1791, aged 20; and his second spouse etc.".

[1] Hunter records that she had a foot amputated after a horse-riding accident, therefore the cause of death may actually have been septicaemia.

In 1825 A. N. Carmichael erected the present tombstone in his aunt's memory, many years after her death.

[5] Local tradition however records that she was not an intimate of the poet and may have actually met him only once during tea at a friend’s house.

'Mary Morison' was the finest of his early songs, written prior to The Kilmarnock Volume, but not included and only sent to George Thomson on 20 March 1793.