Jean Gardner or later Jean Hill, was "a young woman of very surpassing beauty," with a "light foot and an ensnaring eye," but she may have been thirteen years older than Robert Burns with whom she was on friendly or 'intimate' terms. A strong local tradition in Irvine links her with Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), however no contemporary written evidence records this relationship and Burns himself is not thought to have written about her, other than a disputed use of her given name as the 'darling Jean' of Burns's 'Epistle to Davie', and most recent writers have considered the reference to be to Jean Armour.
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25 January 1759 Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland
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Died |
21 July 1796 (aged 37) Philadelphia, USA
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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