Please note that David was a collier and poet. He was not a weaver (as suggested on the Kirk Lane Cemetery website), although he mother came from a family of weavers who lived in Pollokshaws. … [Read more...]
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Kirk Lane Cemetery (The Vennel)
One of Glasgow's oldest cemeteries, Kirk Lane is a small burial ground containing several gravestones from the 18th century,although many are in poor condition. Among those buried here is Betty Thomson, the daughter of Scotland’s national bard Robert Burns. She had lived in the … [Read more...]
