1751 - 1825 (74 years)
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| Name |
Helen Craik |
| Birth |
1751 |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
1825 |
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| Person ID |
I103462 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2022 |
| Marriage |
- Helen Craik had fallen in love with a groom on the estate; her family had discovered it; the groom, sent to Dumfries on an errand, and failing to return, was found shot dead by the roadside, with the local authorities ruling it suicide, rather than murder, though local rumour muttered otherwise
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| Family ID |
F78445 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2022 |
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| Notes |
- Helen Craik wrote poetry, and her manuscript book of her poems includes her 'Lines written on a blank Leaf of Mr Burns's Poems':
Here native Genius, gay, unique and strong,
Shines through each page, and marks the tuneful song,—
Rapt Admiration her warm tribute pays,
And Scotia proudly echoes all she says;
Bold Independence, too, illumes the theme
And claims a manly privilege to fame.—
— Vainly, O Burns! wou'd rank and riches shine,
Compar'd with inborn merit great as thine!
These Chance may take, as Chance has often giv'n,
But powrs like thine can only come from Heav'n
(Neilson, 1924, 66).
Burns and Helen Craik knew each other. His only known letters to any of the Craiks are addressed to her. She shared her poems with him, and both of his letters to her also enclosed poems.
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