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'Helen Anne', 'Anna' or Ann Park,〔(Burns Encyclopedia ) Retrieved : 27 February 2012〕 later Ann Park was baptised on 16 December 1770 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was the daughter of Joseph Park, an Edinburgh coachmaker and Jean Dick. The record of Ann's baptism gives her mother's name as Ann Dick, but the parents marriage record states her name to be Jean Dick. The records of all of Ann's subsequent siblings also give their mother's name as Jean Dick. Ann married John Greenshiels, or Greenshields, on 11 November 1794 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She bore the poet Robert Burns an illegitimate child named Elizabeth "Betty" Burns. Her name is given as 'Ann Hislop' on her daughter's death certificate of 13 June 1873. ==Life and character== It has been commonly believed that Ann was a niece of Mrs Jean 'Meg' Hyslop (born Jean or Jane Maxwell), who was the landlady at the Globe Tavern in Dumfries. She first met Burns when she was only nineteen〔McIntyre, Page 269〕 and following an affair with the poet, Ann Park gave birth on 31 March 1791〔Douglas, Page 224〕 to Robert Burns's daughter, Elizabeth "Betty" Burns,〔〔Hecht, Page 186〕 just a few days before his wife Jean Armour gave birth to his son, William Nicol Burns. Ann Park gave the child Elizabeth to Burns in 1793 when was seeking a position as a domestic servant.〔(100 Facts About Burns ) Retrieved : 27 February 2012〕 Mackay relates that she was in fact the second-cousin of William 'Jock' Hyslop, Jean's husband, his father having remarried an Ann Park in 1733.〔Mackay, Page 456〕 Mackay gives no references to support these claims. As previously stated, she married the tradesman〔 John Greenshields on 11 November 1794 in Edinburgh, Scotland.〔〔(Ayrshire Roots ) Retrieved : 27 February 2012〕 One tradition is that she died whilst giving birth to Elizabeth, whilst another more evidenced tradition alleges that she became a domestic servant in Leith or Edinburgh, where she married John Greenshields, a soldier, and died in giving birth to his child.〔 Mackay relates that she married a carpenter named John Greenshields on 11 November 1794. John married a Jane Boyd in 1799, suggesting that Ann was dead by this time. Neither marriage resulted in children.〔 Mackay states his version was based on "A detailed study of the registers of Edinburgh and Leith". A more thorough study reveals the following. Ann married John Greenshields on 17 November 1794. They had 5 children; James, baptised 14 March 1997 in St Cuthberts, Edinburgh; John, baptised 25 January 1798 in St Cuthberts; Margaret, baptised 20 August 1801 in St Cuthberts; Ann, baptised 26 April 1808 in Leith South; Elisabeth, baptised 4 August 1811 in Leith South. The records show a John Greenshields married Margaret Morris in Leith South in 1818 and they had 4 children. The naming of the children suggests this was the same John that married Ann Park, indicating that Ann died sometime between the birth of Elisabeth in 1811 and John's re-marriage in 1818. Note that Mackay correctly stated that a John Greenshields married Jane Boyd in 1799 in Edinburgh. This has doubtless led Mackay and others to the wrong conclusion that Ann had died. In fact this was a different John, and he and Jane had a daughter, Christiana Jane, in 1800. All of the latter information can be found through the "Scotland's People" website. Brown records that two of Ann's grandsons were at the 1859 Glasgow Anniversary Celebrations,〔Brown, Page 109〕 sons therefore of her daughter Betty and John Thomson. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ann Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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