Campbell, Margaret, c1871-1939 (or Stewart)
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, August 1903 to July 1904
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, which he used to collect material mainly from a Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, Ciorstan MacLean née Cameron, Leideag, Barraigh/Isle of Barra and Margaret Campbell née Stewart and her husband Andrew, tinkers at Bohespic, Siorrachd Pheairt/Perthshire. There are twenty folios the first fourteen of which contain text. Most of the material was collected from Mary MacRae, who sang several waulking songs and...
Dates:
August 1903 to July 1904
List of vocabulary comprising tinker's cant, 27 July 1904
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/33
Scope and Contents
List of vocabulary comprising tinker's cant, collected from Margaret Stewart, wife of Andrew Campbell, Bohespic, Rannoch, [Easter Bohespic or Over Bohespic, Raineach both Siorrachd Pheairt/Perthshire], including terms for people such as 'Gadie = boy, Gaozie = man'; terms relating to their surroundings such as 'Beis = wood. Stand in the beis = Storn in the beis - stopping in the wood'; and terms relating to everyday activities such as eating and drinking a number of which involve the word...
Dates:
27 July 1904
Song beginning 'A drum a du a du a de' [A Diddle for a Tinker's Wedding] and accompanying note, 27 July 1904
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/35
Scope and Contents
Song beginning 'A drum a du a du a de' [A Diddle for a Tinker's Wedding] and accompanying note probably collected from Margaret Campbell nee Stewart or her husband Andrew Campbell, Easter Bohespic or Over Bohespic, Siorrachd Pheairt/Perthshire. The song is composed of a four line chorus and four verses of four lines each. A vocabulary note explains the final line of the chorus 'Hurra the naikains waddin O' as 'Naikin = Tinker'. The additional note states that Andrew Campbell is a grandson of...
Dates:
27 July 1904
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- Vocabulary 2
- Biography 1
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- Family History 1
- Fasts and Feasts 1
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- Goats 1
- Hospitality 1
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Language and Languages 1
- Letterfearn Glenshiel (parish) Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Lullabies 1
- Noise 1
- Placenames 1
- Poems 1
- Proverbs 1
- Rannoch Perthshire Scotland 1
- Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Sayings 1
- Sutherland Scotland 1
- Tales 1
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- Waulking songs 1
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