Helen Scott

  General Notes:

She was a cousin of Sir Walter Scott . He used to breakfast with Helen and her sister and they helped him with the plot of Ivanhoe.

Helen Scott was believed to have made the family tapestry ( It has been passed down through the generations and William Burn Thompson has had it since the 1990's).

A family picture shows the tapestry hanging in the Burn's Chedoke home at Hamilton Ont. circa 1887.

The story behind the tapestry is believed to be as follows;

" The standing figure is a woman, the sweetheart of the man she is about to kill ( who is on the ground). They had a quarrel, and he went off to war, and she disguised as a man went off too, only on the opposite side. They met in battle, she finds him wounded and is about to do him in when she realizes who he is!"

Helen married David Burn, son of Alexander Burn and Unknown, on 21 Feb 1796. (David Burn was born in Beaver Hall Edinburgh Scotland, died in Chedoke House , Hamilton Ontario and was buried in Old Barton Cemetary Hamilton Ontario.)