Burns planned to meet Highland Mary in Greenock but alas it was never to happen as Mary and their baby died before this. The ships Burns should have sailed in from Greenock to Jamaica never set sail as planned.

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Around the same time, the publication of Burns poetry was to take off and so the sailing from Greenock was never to take place. When Burns toured the West Highlands he visited Highland Mary's grave. Today it is with a Memorial.

 

In 1802, six years after Burns death, Greenock held the first Burns supper. Who is to say how things may have altered if the ship had sailed ...