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When did Robert Burns marry Jean Armour?

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Engraved portrait of Robert Burns, shown from the waist up wearing a dark jacket and cravat, facing slightly to the left. — Robert Burns Robert Burns, engraving from *A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen*, 1870.

Robert Burns married Jean Armour in 1788. Following a period of reconciliation, the couple settled together at a farm in Ellisland, Dumfriesshire, during the summer of that year.1