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62. Mary Jane WHITEFOORD
. Subject of the robert Burns poem "The Braes of Ballochmyle".
Burns added the following footnote to the song: "I composed the verses on
the amiable and excellent family of Whitefoord leaving Ballochmyle. The 'Maria'
referred to in the song was Sir John's daughter, Mary Anne Whitefoord."
The Braes of Ballochmyle is the wooded north bank of the River Ayr between Catrine
and the Howford bridge, (now the A76 Mauchline/Auchinleck Road).
She was married to Henry Kerr CRANSTOUN (son of George CRANSTOUN and Unknown) in 1803.
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