MacQuien, Christina, c1797-1883 (or MacQueen | domestic servant | Fernilea | Isle of Skye)
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'A Chaora Bhoidheach Ghlas', c1862
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/4
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'A Chaora Bhoidheach Ghlas' collected from Donnacha Mac Dhiarmaid [Duncan MacDiarmaid] Fearann an letha [Fearann an Leagha/Fernilea, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] on 7 March 1861 and also from Caristine Nic Cuiean [Christina MacQuien or MacQueen] also from Fernilea. The story is told in a confusing manner as the different episodes of the story have been over-compressed. The story tells of two girls. One girl is born to a sheep, which is onwed by a wealthy man and the...
Dates:
c1862
Story entitled 'Chaora Bhirroch Ghlas', 7 February 1860
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/20
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Chaora Bhirroch Ghlas' ['Sharp Grey Sheep'] collected from Donnacha Mac Dhirmaid [Duncan MacDiarmaid], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye], who learned it from Christiana Mac Queen [Christina MacQueen], Fearan an leatha [Fearann an Leagha/Fernilea, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The story is told in a confusing manner as the different episodes of the story have been over-compressed. The story tells of two girls. One girl is born to a sheep, which...
Dates:
7 February 1860
Story under the heading 'Ur-Sgeulan' entitled 'An t-Iarla Og', c1862
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/10
Scope and Contents
Story under the heading 'Ur-Sgeulan' entitled 'An t-Iarla Og' [The Young Earl] collected from Caristiane Nic Cuiean [Christina MacQuien or MacQueen] Fearann-an -letha [Fearann an Leagha/Fernilea, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The story tells how a young earl hears a voice calling him in the middle of the night telling him that his wife is giving birth and that he should get up. This happens three times and on the third occasion he some up. As it is dark it is some time until he sees...
Dates:
c1862
Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1860 to c1866
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112
Scope and Contents
Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The majority of the volume has been used but intermittently there are groups of blank folios. Carmichael appears to have written in the book in the 1860s creating sections of different genres at different stages in the volume, with pages left blank in between to fill up appropriately. In about 1875 he has then used some of these blank pages to transcribe notes and stories but has not kept to the genres sections he initially created....
Dates:
1860 to c1866
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- Tales 3
- Love 2
- Shapeshifting 2
- Sheep 2
- Swans 2
- Arthurian romances 1
- Beheading 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Childbirth 1
- Cille Pheadair North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Clachan na Luib North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Clans (Scotland) 1
- Cruelty 1
- Customs 1
- Death 1
- Diarmaid 1
- Disputes 1
- Family History 1
- Fenian cycle 1
- Fenians 1
- Fionn MacCumhail 1
- Fish 1
- Food 1
- Giants 1
- Griminish North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Haskeir Island North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Heisker North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hogha Gearraidh North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hospitality 1
- Hunting 1
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Jewellery 1
- Language 1
- Magic 1
- Murder 1
- Nobility 1
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Poems 1
- Proverbs 1
- Riddles 1
- Sayings 1
- Scolpaig North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sea faring 1
- Seals (Animals) 1
- Songs 1
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Talisker Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Trien Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
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