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Old Rome Forest or Old Room Foord
A house where Jean Brown, an aunt of Burns on his mother's side, lived with her husband, James Allan. When Burns had to go into hiding as a result of James Armour's warrant for his arrest, the poet stayed at his aunt's house, which had the additional advantage of being reasonably near John Wilson's printing shop in Kilmarnock. Nothing remains of Old Rome Forest, and even its location is now largely a matter of conjecture. But according to D. M'Naught (in an article in the Burns Chronicle, 1893) the house was on the estate of Fairlie, near Irvine, where Allan was employed in 1786 as joiner or carpenter. Incidentally, Allan's son Alexander, bred a shoemaker, went to sea, and 'became the progenitor of the proprietors of the 'Allan line' of Atlantic steamers'. See Allan, Jean.
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