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Elizabeth Cairns

Dates 1685 - 1741
Additional date information 1685-1741
Place born Blackford
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writer

Biography

dissenter and Covenanter,  father a shepherd. She worked as a servant in Stirling and later ran a school. She was author of Memories of the Life of Elizabeth Cairns ed John Greig.  Glasgow: John Brown, 1762

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