MacRae, Mary, fl1903
Person
Found in 2 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
Fragment of a proverb beginning 'Bleadhan t sneachda bhuidhe', 22 August 1903
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/3
Scope and Contents
Fragment of a proverb probably collected from Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, which reads 'Bleadhan t sneachda bhuidhe? Earrach Duibh a Challa? The snows of gr[e]at'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
22 August 1903
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- Customs 1
- Easter Bohespic Blair Atholl Perthshire Scotland 1
- Fasts and Feasts 1
- Geography 1
- Geology 1
- Goats 1
- Hospitality 1
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Language 1
- Language and Languages 1
- Lullabies 1
- Noise 1
- Over Bohespic Blair Atholl Perthshire Scotland 1
- Perthshire Scotland 1
- Placenames 1
- Poems 1
- Sayings 1
- Seasons 1
- Songs 1
- Sutherland Scotland 1
- Tales 1
- Travelling people (tinkers or tinsmiths) 1
- Vocabulary 1
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- Waulking songs 1 + ∧ less
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