Kate Kemp
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Kate Kemp of Barskimming lived with her father at the Bridge House on the northern side of the single-span Barskimming Old Bridge (Barskimming Auld Brig),[1] River Ayr, Scotland. Both Robert Burns and James Andrew, the miller at Barskimming Mill, had a romantic interest in her, and one visit led to the composition of the poem and dirge "Man was made to Mourn".[2][3]