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Children

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

Custom entitled 'Brosnachadh Caonaig', 24 June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/131
Scope and Contents

Custom entitled 'Brosnachadh Caonaig' collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann describing how a fight would be started between school boys. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 24 June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Custom regarding the attendance of fathers at the funeral of their stillborn or unbaptised children, September 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/129
Scope and Contents

Custom regarding the attendance of fathers at the funeral of their stillborn or unbaptised children. It states that they do not attend the funeral and go about their ordinary work and that if they do attend they will have no more children. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Customs relating to to food and drink, 20 November 1873

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/15
Scope and Contents Custom relating to food and drink including predicting using egg-whites or salt in water - the choice of salt water was an indication of drowning; the number of grains of corn thrown from a handful would indicate the number of children a woman would have; an account using 'crathadh an fhras lin' at Draineach, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isleof Skye; salt-herrings being roasted on a fire and the first thristy person would be the first to be married; and the throwing of a string into a kiln to see...
Dates: 20 November 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Dhenkanal Baba Lou, 1000 Children Assembled for [B?]all, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1447
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a line of 1000 children assembled along a road in Dhenkanal in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Drawing of young child, c.1940

 Item
Identifier: LHB1/61A/94/1/80
Scope and Contents

Carbon dust drawing of young child lying on their left side, view from the back.

Dates: c.1940
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh / Department of Surgical Neurology Papers / Professor Norman Dott: Medical Illustrations and Demonstration Boards / Illustrations and diagrams

Dumba Ram, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2370
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a small child riding on the back of a Dumba ram in a yard in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Written on the inside front cover is '2/9 1870. Oban' and on the flyleaf is '[deleted: Twas] Friday 2 Sep[tember]. 1870. 12 noon from Ob[an]'. Folios 1-3r and 75r to 117v are blank. The text on folio 3v and 4r and 4v is written updside down and is later text (29 January 1875). The contents are in two distinct sections, the first being material collected on Lios Mòr/Lismore and the second being material collected in South Uist. Much of the...
Dates: 2 September 1870 to 7 October 1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Fragment of the story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean', c1861

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/11
Scope and Contents

Fragment of the story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean' [similar to folktales of 'The Extraordinary Companion'] probably collected from Ruaridh Camshron [Roderick Cameron], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The complete story can be found at CW109/2 folio 3v.

Dates: c1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Fragment of the story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean', c1861

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/12
Scope and Contents

Fragment of the story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean' [similar to folktales of 'The Extraordinary Companion'] probably collected from Ruaridh Camshron [Roderick Cameron], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] which can be found at CW109/2, folio 3v.

Dates: c1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Fragment of the story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean', c1861

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/13
Scope and Contents

Fragment of the story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean' [similar to folktales of 'The Extraordinary Companion'] probably collected from Ruaridh Camshron [Roderick Cameron], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] which can be found at CW109/2, folio 3v.

Dates: c1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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