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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8533, 11 September 1907, Page 5

The annojncement has been made that a civil list pension of =£loo each has been granted to Mrs Sarah Hutchinson.and Miss Annie Beckett Burns, both of Cheltenham, "in consideration of th<; eminence of their grandfather, Robert Burns, as a poet, and of their advanced age and inadequate means of support." Mrs Hutchinson, who was born in 1821, is the daughter of Colonel James Glencairn Burns by his first wife. She married a Cheltenham doctor in 1847, and has one son, who is a clerk in Chicago, and married; two daughters, married, but without issue; and an unmarried daughter, who resides with her mother. Miss A. B. Burns, who lives with her sister, was born in 1830. Both ladies have been in straitened,, circumstances, and in consequent of' this had to sell various Burns relics. One of these, Burns' Bible, was sold by Mrs Hutchinson for £1,750, and was subsequently acquired for the little museum in Burns' Cottage.