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
Song entitled 'Och Chonan O', 22 August 1903
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/13
Scope and Contents
Waulking song entitled 'Och Chonan O' probably collected from Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, beginning 'Thug mi n oiche a raoir an t-aire, S bhi mi nochd i huill ho ro'. The song consists of forty three lines. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
22 August 1903
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