\biohead{Jean Kirkland}{}{}

Jean Kirkland was born on 3 January 1777 in Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland \cite{JKirklandBirth} to \bioref{Hugh_Kirkland} and \bioref{Marion_McGie}. She was christened on 7 January 1777 in Sorn.

She married \bioref{Robert_Dunsmore} and they had five children (see page \pageref{Robert_Dunsmore}).

She died during the cholera epidemic which swept the Kilmarnock area in 1832, as did her son James and his wife and two of their children.\cite{DRDunsmoreDeath} They are all buried in the cholera graves in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.