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died unmarried

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His portrait is in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

John married Isabella Duncan in 1801. Isabella (daughter of Rev John Duncan) was born about 1775; died in 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Minister at the Barony, Glasgow, for 69 years.
Started the first Sunday School
John Burns, Barony parifh Church, 2d flat New Caftlepens land caft fide High-ftreet

In 1744, there was born to John Burn and Janet,
his wife, an only child, who afterwards became Dr.
Burns of the Barony Church, and the father of
George Burns.

In course of time John Burn sold the property
of Corntown in the county of Stirling ? which had
been long in the family, Thomas Burne having
held it in 1538, by Crown Charter ? and came to
reside in Glasgow, probably in 1767, one of the
dates on which his covenant is " recognized."
Here he wrote an English Grammar, which bore his
name and was highly popular as a school-book in
the West of Scotland. He was also the author
of a good English Dictionary, and of several other
educational works of considerahle repute in their
day. On October the 20th, 1768, he was admitted
Burgess and Guild Brother of Glasgow, and on
September 1, 1781, Burgess of Kilmarnock. In
both the burgess tickets he is described as "John
Burn." Some years prior to the date of this latter
document, however, viz., in 1774, his son was
''created a free Burgess of the Burgh of Paisley,"
and his name is inserted therein as John Burns.

John married Elizabeth Stevenson in 1775. Elizabeth (daughter of John Stevenson and Elizabeth Tulloch) was born before 1775; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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of Alva, Scotland

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A descendant of either Chrystie Burn in Westerton in Tillicoultrie, or Patrick Burne of Wester Tillicoultrie, both of whom held a feu of a 6th part of the farms between 1609 and 1620, one or both of which descended to John Burn.

It should be noted that there is no such place as Stirth.
He was of Airth.

He as an assistant in the school of Airth at the time of his marriage.

he was a writing master in the English School )in Stirling?) and than beame head of the school

he moved to Glasgow after the death of his wife.

JOHN BURNS was admitted Burgess and Guild Brother of Glasgow on 20th October 1768, and his name appears in the first Glasgow Directory as teacher of English. He was also author of a good English Dictionary, and of several educational works of repute in their day. And he set his family a pattern of piety and diligence which they have not failed to copy. He came from near Stirling, and was of the same stock with the well known Dr. Burns, minister of Kilsyth. The family name was originally Burn. John Burns' elder brother was Burn of the Haugh. He himself owned the little property of Corntown, near Stirling. By his wife, Janet Young, daughter of William Young of Risk, (3) he left an only son.

'Old John Burn' has left on record, among his early remembrances, the fact that he saw from his father's house the soldiers crowding past with their wounded from the battle of "Shirra Muir" in the Jacobite rising of 1715.

John married Janet (of Risk) Young on 9 Feb 1741 in St Ninians, Stirling, Scotland. Janet (daughter of William (of Risk) Young and Jean White) was born before 1741; died in 1749. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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youngest daughter

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Married:

George Burns, His Times and Friends
Chapter I. The Burns Family

George Burns was born on the 10th of December, 1795. He came of an old and long-lived family, which for many generations had occupied an honourable position in the West of Scotland. The life of his grandfather carries us back to the beginning of the eighteenth century, and that is far enough in history for us to travel in this narrative.

Old John Burn has left on record, among his early remembrances, the fact that he saw from his father's house the soldiers crowding past with their wounded from the battle of "Shirra Muir" in the Jacobite rising of 1715.

The family was originally named Burn, and John Burn, the grandfather of the subject of our narrative, was a Stirling man, where he owned the little property of Corntown. He was an author, a man of considerable learning, and of deep piety.

There lies before the present writer the contract of marriage betwixt Mr. John Burn, of Stirth, and Sheriff Muir.

Janet Young, youngest daughter of the deceas'1 William Young, of Risk, and Jean White, his relict spouse?at St. Ninians, February 9, 1741."

Janet Young had been a staunch adherent of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskinel of Stirling, one of the four "outed ministers" of 1733, and she continued a Seceder for some time after her marriage to John Burn, who was an Established Churchman, although in course of time she, like many others, seceded from the Secession.

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A brewer in Glasgow

John + Elizabeth Tulloch. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]