Historedia
Person

Robert Burns of Paisley

Events
1
Episodes
1
Years
1782

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Robert Burns of Paisley, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Planned Town of Johnstone

    1782

    Role: credited with rescuing the Johnstone cotton mill from failure sometime before 1812; identity unresolved in the supplied sources

    1. 1782 · Johnstone, Renfrewshire, ScotlandLaird commissions the planned town

      In 1782 George Houstoun commissioned designs for regular residential streets that now form Johnstone's town centre.

Sources

  1. Johnstone Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-30