Joan Kelly (poet)
Joan Kelly (1828–1898) was a poet and hand-sewer who published her "''Miscellaneous Poems''" on 1 January 1884 in the hope of raising sufficient funds to be able to leave the Cunninghame Combination Poorhouse. Life and character Kelly was born in Irvine and never married, living with her widowed mother Mary Allan in Bridgegate and later in the High Street. It is not known when or how her father died, although one of her poems implies that it was at sea whilst her mother was pregnant. She was employed as a muslin hand-sewer. Kelly took an active interest in local and world events, writing poetry on these themes. Her mother, Mary Allan (born circa 1786), died in 1870 aged 84. Her father was John Kelly (born circa 1785), a sailor from the Isle of Man where the couple had been married at Onchan or in Manx language, Manx, Onchan, Kione Droghad near Douglas, Isle of Man, Douglas Doolish (Manx) on 16 May 1816. Kelly's grandparents on her mother's side of the family were Robert Allan a ...
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Irvine, North Ayrshire
Irvine ( ; sco, Irvin,
gd, Irbhinn, IPA: ˆiɾʲivɪɲ is an ancient settlement, in medieval times a , and now a new town on the coast of the in North Ayrshire,