Jessie Lewars

Jessie Lewars also known as Mrs. James Thomson, was the youngest daughter of John Lewars, a supervisor of excise. Following the death of her 69 yearold father in 1789, Jessie was onlyyears old, when she and her brother John moved to a house in Millhole Brae that lay opposite that of Robert Burns in Dumfries. Jessie was a close Burns family friend and when nearly at the age of eighteen helped the family by nursing Robert in the days leading up to his death and doing the domestic chores.

Jessie had a brother and also an older sister, Mary, who married William Hyslop, a Dumfries builder. As teasingly predicted by Robert Burns, Jessie married James Thomson, a lawyer or solicitor, in Dumfries onJune 1799. The couple had five sons and two daughters. From the marriage of James Thomson and Jessie Lewars Thomson were born five sons and two daughters. The sons were James John , who worked with his father William , who was a captain in the merchant service, and died at the Cape of Good Hope Thomas and Alexander 18141859.

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